RE: Security advice - opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333]

2002-04-23 Thread Don Nguyen
Its generally a good idea only to open ports that necesarry (eg. 80 for http, 21 for ftp, etc..). Opening up unnecesarry ports and/or running unnecesarry services just opens your server up to security vulnerabilities. In your case I don't really understand what you're trying to do. For a web

Re: Security advice - opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333]

2002-04-23 Thread Brown, M
In my case, a third-party application requires port TCP 100 open. I used a conduit from the PIX allowing in/outbound traffic to that specific server IP address where the application resides. My question is, how can I make sure this TCP 100 port is going to be secure as possible... I would like

Re: Security advice - opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333]

2002-04-23 Thread nrf
Don Nguyen wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Its generally a good idea only to open ports that necesarry (eg. 80 for http, 21 for ftp, etc..). Opening up unnecesarry ports and/or running unnecesarry services just opens your server up to security vulnerabilities.

RE: Security advice - opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333]

2002-04-23 Thread Roberts, Larry
- opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333] Don Nguyen wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Its generally a good idea only to open ports that necesarry (eg. 80 for http, 21 for ftp, etc..). Opening up unnecesarry ports and/or running unnecesarry services ju

Re: Security advice - opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333]

2002-04-23 Thread nrf
Thanks Larry -Original Message- From: nrf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Security advice - opening ports other than 80 and [7:42333] Don Nguyen wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PRO