10 small companies can be as bad as 10 Medium companies. Depends on how you define size and more important, on how similar or different the policies are. 10 very different policies can be worse than one policy applied to serveral firewalls/gateways. Dealing with multiple company interfaces is also more challenging.
Just had to get my 2 cents in. Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 4:45 AM Subject: Re: standards > Hi David, > > I don't think there is any set practise on this point. The determining > factors are probably how skilled your firewall people are and what size > of organisations the firewalls are protecting. More skilled admin > people should be able to handle more systems. The size of organisation > will tend to indicate the complexity of the system and likelihood of > serious attack: I bet 10 small companies is equal to one medium one for > instance. > > Investment in management tools can save a lot of people time. I > remember way back reading the logs on every firewall I had each day. > These days I don't think anyone would do that, there are concentrators > and alerters to handle most of that work. > > Cheers, > > Steve > > > > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would like to know if there is any sort of standard or basic guideline > > (safe practice) in regards to number of > > firewalls per firewall admin. How many firewalls should a firewall admin be > > expected to safely manage > > > > any help would be greatly appreciated > > > > > > David Malow > > ITM Global Network Security > > > > > > > > > > > > **************************************************************************** > > > > The information contained in this transmission, which may be > > confidential and proprietary, is only for the intended recipients. > > Unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this > > transmission in error, please notify me immediately by telephone > > or electronic mail and confirm that you deleted this transmission > > and the reply from your electronic mail system. > > **************************************************************************** > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Firewalls mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls > > > _______________________________________________ > Firewalls mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls > _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
