RE: FW: [fw-wiz] The Death Of A Firewall

  • From: "John T \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:58:21 -0700

He specializes in Internet and Firewall architecture, yet wants to do away
with firewalls?

Some one see some thing very wrong there?

John T
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 7:48 PM
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> Subject: [isalist] FW: [fw-wiz] The Death Of A Firewall
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>  This is a very interesting article:
> 
> http://www.securitypipeline.com/165700439
> 
> I'll forgive the guy for thinking of high speed packet filters as the
> only type of "firewall" and some other conceptual blubobs. We can also
> ignore the title, since there are still firewalls segmenting different
> security perimeters, which is the thrust of the current article series
> on the www.isaserver.org Web site, and two more article series showing
> some other ways to do network security perimeter segmentation using ISA
> firewalls.
> 
> What's interesting is that only the servers and other core network
> assets are protected and only to and from these assets are strong
> network access controls enforce. All the clients are considered
> untrusted, and sit behind an Internet router that lets everything in and
> out. I suppose this guy has a lot of public addresses to get away with
> this, but some companys have hundreds and thousands and tens of
> thousands to throw around.
> 
> I'm going to chew on this idea some more, and see if I can tell a good
> ISA firewall story around it. It certainly would solve the "Open Port"
> button issue.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> Thomas W Shinder, M.D.
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