Gary Jones wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> I am shortly going to be responsible for an IT
> department that will heavily include e-commerce.
> I am a graduate and have recently been researching
> network security. I am firm believer that the highest
> risk of intrusion is from inside rather than the
> internet.
>
> Where I really need guidance is with the strict
> control of ports. I have yet to see a software
> firewall package (for Windows OS) that is
> comprehensive enough to allow me to control ports. Any
> advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
>
Allthough im certanly not an old-fireall-experienced-consultant
i can tell you that wiroute offers a quite coplete framework to start
learny by doing on tcp/ip networking. the first of all give you a basic
logical model and guide aou to build a firewall senario where you
understand what you are doing (www.winroute.com), the trial time should
be enough to give you a real starting point.
> Additionally, could anyone at all with veteran
> experience in this area, point me in the right
> direction for literature that may help me begin to get
> a grip on security.
for grmany that would be www.bsi.de, the also offer an english version
of their "IT Baseline Protection Handbook"
(http://www.bsi.de/gshb/english/menue.htm). For clearity the BSI is a
german Federal Ministry elegible for the national Information Security.
> University and other academic education seems to avoid
> the issue of security when it goes any further than
> locking doors!
>
not new, even now a days most teachers are rather afraid then astonished
about the "new" youth.....
(not to mention their fear if an old guy knows all this fancy security
stuff)
> Thanks in advance people!.
>
> Kind Regards
> Gary Jones
>
Regards Onno Kreuzinger
B.T.W. OT: any one kows how to build a _fully_ scalable jsp/ajp13
cluster
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