Re: OT: Educating users about Security

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:06 pm, Dennis Kibbe kindly wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:51:55 -0700
>
> Siri Amrit Kaur <tigerflag@tigerflag.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 15 November 2004 10:47 am, Joseph Toon kindly wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 2 questions about this:
> >
> > 1. If I set up a firewall appliance with IPcop, can I install Postfix,
> > Amavisd and clamav on it?
>
> And why not Frozen Bubble while you're at it. <g>
>
> Firewalls should be just that, firewalls. The more services run on the
> firewall the bigger risk that it will get 0wn3d.
>
> Dennisk
Thanks, Dennis.

I came to the same conclusion after another day of reading. I was thinking
about the security distros like ClarkConnect that seem to have firewall and
other apps bundled together. It seemed like a good thing to be able to virus
scan from the firewall so each box on the LAN wouldn't need it's own AV
suite. But then I started to realize what you're saying:

> Firewalls should be just that, firewalls. The more services run on the
> firewall the bigger risk that it will get 0wn3d.

And those extra apps would just be more things I would have to master and keep
updated perfectly. I'd rather run Norton on the Windows boxes and let it
update itself every day.

Siri Amrit
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