Firewalls

[Nathan England]

I have done it for you..
I'll email you the pdf outside the list.

nathan
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: Firewalls


> The first link is also available in PowerPoint and Star Presents.
> Sorry, no pdf.  When I get some time, maybe I'll fire up the shiny
> new Adobe 5 I downloaded from their site that is supposed to create
> pdf's.  But first I have to stop working 60-70 hours/week.
>
> George
>
>
> Nathan England wrote:
> >
> > 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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