Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?
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Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

From: Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de>
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 12:27:45 CET

Leythos wrote:

> That's where you're confused, they are watched at the right point, in
> fact at multiple points.

Behind their back / on the screen? All the time?

> Not only IS it practical, it's done by normal practice in many
> companies, at least the ones that want to be secure. And this doesn't
> even take into account the Mandatory Security settings that can be
> pushed out via GP to the workstations for IE.

There is no secure configuration for IE, neither would it be practical.

> Again, it's about knowing the threat, not about patching some broken
> software, if you block the threats it doesn't matter what program is
> broken.

Someone who still believes in Enumerating Badness...
Received on Mon May 1 00:53:23 2006