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Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/10/99 23:48:24
Please respond to Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bcc: Amir Herzberg/Haifa/IBM)
Subject: Re: Internal vs exte
I said:
>> If it's programmable it's vulnerable.
Ben Laurie replied:
>Oh, right. There's no attack you can defend against, right?
One has to be careful with one's universal quantifiers.
"There's no attack you can defend against." - false
"There are defenses against some attacks." - true
"Ther
Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> How does this trojan horse or virus get onto the targetted computer? I
>> don't know what you run behind your firewalls, but I certainly don't run
>> anything that could get trojaned or virused.
There are very few interesting sites which don't have large
At 08:57 AM 10/4/99 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
>How does this trojan horse or virus get onto the targetted computer? I
>don't know what you run behind your firewalls, but I certainly don't run
>anything that could get trojaned or virused.
Yes, but you're not the only one on your LAN. Is everyone a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>A commonly-held conception in the commercial world (in my experience) is that
>most threats to "corporate security" come from the Internet-at-large, and
>therefore being behind a firewall is a Good Thing and generally Sufficient.
>
>Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Jeff says/asks,
>
> > A commonly-held conception in the commercial world (in my experience) is that
> > most threats to "corporate security" come from the Internet-at-large, and
> > therefore being behind a firewall is a Good Thing and generally Sufficient.
>
> I be
Jeff says/asks,
> A commonly-held conception in the commercial world (in my experience) is that
> most threats to "corporate security" come from the Internet-at-large, and
> therefore being behind a firewall is a Good Thing and generally Sufficient.
I believe this is a very wrong notion. Howev
> Do any folks out there have any pointers to docs, study reports,
> whathaveyou
> that provide quanifiable evidence about either or both external or
> internal
> threats?
>
an oft-cited report:
Issues and Trends: 1999 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey
http
A commonly-held conception in the commercial world (in my experience) is that
most threats to "corporate security" come from the Internet-at-large, and
therefore being behind a firewall is a Good Thing and generally Sufficient.
Of course there are many references in the literature which dispute
