THREE ! Erik Goldoff Systems Manager The HoneyBaked Ham Company
> -----Original Message----- > From: O'Flynn, Derek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [FW-1] How many rules should a firewall have? > > > Ah...this gets better and better. > > How many bites does it take to get to the center of a tootsie > roll? Anyone > figure that out yet? > > Derek > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [FW-1] How many rules should a firewall have? > > There is NO answer to that question. They are obviously > firewall ignorant. > I assume they are independent auditors? If so, I would > consider firing them > for such a stupid question. Makes me wonder what else they > know nothing > about... > > > > Christian Campbell > Systems Engineer, Sair LCP, A+, N+, i-Net+ > Bruegger's Enterprises > Desk: 802-652-9270 > Cell: 802-734-5023 > Fax: 802-660-4034 > Email: ccampbell at brueggers dot com > > PGP Public Key available via PGP keyservers > or http://www2.brueggers.com/pgp/ccampbell.html > > "We all know Linux is great... > It does infinite loops in 5 seconds." > -Linus Torvalds > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Albert Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:44 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [FW-1] How many rules should a firewall have? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Our auditors are in the midst of things, and they want to > > know how many > > rules a firewall should have. > > > > I told them that 'it depends'. I said that there is no > > specific number > > and a good firewall can have 500 rules, while a bad firewall > > can have 3 > > rules. > > > > They nonetheless want a specific number and they want me to > answer the > > following question: > > > > How many rules should both the perimeter and internal > > firewalls of a global > > financial services organization have? > > > > I need to point them to a document or URL. Anyone have a > > reference I > > could use? > > > > Thanks!!!! > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, > > included with MSN > > Premium! > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00 > 200439ave/direct/01/ > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, > send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================= > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, > send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================= > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, > send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================= > ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================
