RE: Personal Firewalls in corporate settings...

[Joe Matusiewicz]

At 08:27 AM 2/9/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I think that in todays paranoid time then having a personal firewall in the
>corporate environment is not a bad thing.
>
>If you look at IDS products that have firewall like technology (ICE) then
>they have a central reporting and management mechanism that allows desktops
>to report and configure after an attack, or be pre-configured by
>administrators.
>
>Personally, even though I am a firewall administrator, looking after a large
>number of corporate firewalls, I still have a personal firewall for my own
>piece of mind!
>
>Simon

I'll have to agree with Simon on this.  But my paranoia is worse.  On my 
personal NT workstation I run Zone Alarm + BlackICE + Snort.  I 
occasionally do pick up some interesting traffic.


-- Joe

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