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From: gufus on 12 Apr 2010 10:29 Hi Ansgar, 12 Apr 10, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers writes to Gypsy BBS: > From: usenet-2010(a)planetcobalt.net > Wrong. Running an additional firewall means running > additional code that can contain additional exploitable No comment (for now) > misconfiguration, which in turn may inadvertently > open attack vectors. Brief your employees. > What if? That employee's computer still needs to be able to > access the server, meaning the server's ports still need to > be open, meaning that the personal firewall won't help > anything at all. Agreed.. anti-viral /should/ be install on the network, obviously stopping this first. -- K Klement Enhance your marketing at http://www.gypsy-designs.com mailto:info(a)gypsy-designs.com Gypsy Designs Fax: (403) 242-3221 .... Can I blame my spelling on line noise?
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers on 12 Apr 2010 17:01 gufus <stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > 12 Apr 10, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers writes to Gypsy BBS: >> misconfiguration, which in turn may inadvertently open attack >> vectors. > > Brief your employees. You failed to understand the issue. The more complex your systems become, the more likely it's for your employees to make a mistake or overlook something. You could brief them all day long and still not prevent this from happening. cu 59cobalt -- "If a software developer ever believes a rootkit is a necessary part of their architecture they should go back and re-architect their solution." --Mark Russinovich
From: gufus on 12 Apr 2010 11:03 Hi Ansgar, 12 Apr 10, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers writes to Gypsy BBS: > make a mistake or overlook something. You could brief them > all day long and still not prevent this from happening. Tell me about it... good-bad employees. :( -- K Klement Enhance your marketing at http://www.gypsy-designs.com mailto:info(a)gypsy-designs.com Gypsy Designs Fax: (403) 242-3221 .... Evangelists do more than lay people.
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers on 12 Apr 2010 17:09 gufus <stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca> wrote: > 12 Apr 10, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers writes to Gypsy BBS: >> make a mistake or overlook something. You could brief them >> all day long and still not prevent this from happening. > > Tell me about it... good-bad employees. :( You missed the point again. Even the best employees are still human and *will* make mistakes here and there. Unnecessarily increasing system complexity will raise the chances of this happening. cu 59cobalt -- "If a software developer ever believes a rootkit is a necessary part of their architecture they should go back and re-architect their solution." --Mark Russinovich
From: gufus on 12 Apr 2010 11:36
Hi Ansgar, 12 Apr 10, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers writes to Gypsy BBS: > You missed the point again. Even the best employees are I beg to differ. Sir. Employees /need/ to understand the system, especially when I have MS-DOS workstation(s), try getting MS-DOS talking to a Win NT server. <grin> >> -+- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 >> + Origin: Calgary Organization CDN Fidonet-Internet Gateway >> (1:342/77.10) -- K Klement Enhance your marketing at http://www.gypsy-designs.com mailto:info(a)gypsy-designs.com Gypsy Designs Fax: (403) 242-3221 .... Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. |