Brian Steele writes:
>
>When referring to companies who've successfully employing, er, implementing,
>firewalls on NT, I was referring to those that have created and are selling
>firewall products that run on the NT platform. There are a host of them.
>Including Microsoft's Proxy Server (gd&r).
>
>Obviously these companies have a different view regarding NT's security.
>
More likely they are developing for the market. They realize that there are a lot
of people out there that only know NT and will not or can't implement on
Unix for whatever reason. That's where the money is, never mind whether
it's technically superior/inferior.
>IMHO, the anti-NT crowd needs to stop brown-nosing each other concerning the
>"insecurity of NT". If they're REALLY interested, then I suggest to them,
>take your fingers out, look at the NT-based Firewall products, then provide
>opinions about same. If one of these products running on the NT platform
>proves to be insecure, then I'm sure many of us would be interested in this
>information, as we would about any other firewall applications that prove to
>be insecure.
>
>However, I, and am sure many others, are not interested in the usual
>pontification concerning NT and its security. Those who know better know
>that the security of a system is primarily dependent on who's administering
>that system and how it's been implemented, not the OS.
>
primarily? I would say that it's a factor, but I don't think there is
a solid foundation for 'primarily'. Obviously, user savvy concerning the
OS in question and security principles will be a strong factor in the
overall security of a system. However, one cannot ignore the OS as another
strong factor. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. A house
of brick built across a fault line will surely fall at the slightest tremor.
Would you consider building a firewall on Windows 95? If the OS is not
an issue, then you would. You don't see many (knowledgable) people building
firewalls on Win95 though. NT is being actively marketed as a secure, robust
industrial strength OS.
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