Firewalls

[Nathan England]

You wouldn't happen to have this in a pdf format do you?
Something other than a web site?

nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: Firewalls


> Another box that is dedicated to being a firewall.  It's a philosophical
> point as firewalls should be just that - fortified hosts that can
> withstand the attacks from the Internet.  You should have two boxes
> for the same reason most physically secure installations have multiple
> locks - it takes time to break through each one, which gives you the
> chance to catch them.
>
> My suggestion (in order):
> Dump Red Hat (no Holy War - I notified Red Hat about the Millennium
> Internet Worm's three exploits over two years ago, and they didn't
> fix it until version 7.1 - they are slower than Microsoft WRT security)
> http://georgetoft.com/plug/presentations/security/SecuringLinux.htm
> http://georgetoft.com/security/index.html
> http://georgetoft.com/linux/firewall/index.html
>
> Read all of the reference, too.
>
> George
> "Naive by Nature, Paranoid by Experience."
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >
> > This may have recently been discussed, but I need to know now.  What is
a good firewall to use on a RH7.0 workstation that has an always on internet
connection?  Does RH have one that is part of the install?  At this point
the only thing between the internet and my workstation is a simple hub.
> >
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