I work with a lot of different vendors firewalls and IMO PAT is a security
feature (to a degree). like many other security features its not perfect by
itself, but when combined with other features its creates a full firewall.
technically PAT alone would be an aspect of stateful inspection/translat
A couple of reasons why its not enough .. imagine you inadvertently run and
execute a trojan on your home pc. This will then connect out to the
internet and would be valid remote control access. Often these trojans head
out to IRC, where peolpe can actually access / manage your computer user
var
That,s not enough, download and read the cisco security executive summary at
the link below for good tips on hardening your router.
http://www.nsa.gov/snac/cisco/download.htm
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