Re: DMZ design
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Re: DMZ design

From: Frankster <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 23:23:24 CET

>> It's not about "easy", it's about money.
>
> Anything not easy is going to cost money, so it's the same.

Disagree. Often the easiest thing is to throw money on it.

>> A realistic risk analysis verses costs. Some's worth it, some's not.
>
> Honestly, don't most of those "realistic" risk analyses amount to "it's
> more likely to hit others first, so we don't need to spend money on that
> now", until they actually get hit?

Nope. Not if they are done right.

Another thing... it's kind of ridiculous to spend much time and money to
protect a system without real data storage that you can rebuild and have
back to original in an hour. Just depends. OTOH, it could be that an hour of
downtime would cost your company thousands or millions. Just depends.

-Frank
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:18:59 2005