Re: OT: Educating users about Security

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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: OT: Educating users about Security
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:07 pm, Michael Seidner kindly wrote:
> We have one customer who makes every employee sign a waiver which states
> that they won't use the internet for personal use. If they are caught
> doing so then the employee is terminated immediately. Sounds harsh but
> very effective. I have setup several Smoothwall boxes and it seems to
> work okay. Another solution is Astaro Security Linux. It costs 390.00
> for 10 users and you can install it on pretty much any hardware. It has
> more security features built into it than a Smoothwall box will ever
> have. We resell the product and it seems to work well. It has built in
> features for anti-spam (free) and you can also add anti-virus for mail
> and web, web filtering and intrusion protection. The interface is
> through an https connection and it also incorporates and update service
> where patches are automatically downloaded to the firewall. Application
> proxies are also used which gives you a little better protection than
> packet filtering. All the major processes are chrooted so there is some
> thought with regards to security. It's worth taking a looking at. There
> site is http://www.astaro.com


Thank you, Michael. More good stuff to learn about :-)
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