Re: Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-16 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 11 May 2006, at 1:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On May 10, 2006 6:22:11 PM -0700 Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because if the machine has been compromised, it doesn't *matter* what the outgoing ruleset is. Or what anything else is, for that matter. What if you're

Re: Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I've seen most people allow all outgoing traffic originating from the firewall itself... Is this really recommended?? No. It's highly desirable to perform egress filtering if possible, but many people lack the time or the detailed knowledge to determine what

Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-10 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I've seen most people allow all outgoing traffic originating from the firewall itself... Is this really recommended?? What if the machine have been compromised and the intruder have installed a program that let's him access the machine remotely by having the program itself to initiate the

Re: Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:22:11PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, I've seen most people allow all outgoing traffic originating from the firewall itself... Is this really recommended?? What if the machine have been compromised and the intruder have installed a program that let's him

Re: Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-10 Thread pauls
--On May 10, 2006 6:22:11 PM -0700 Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen most people allow all outgoing traffic originating from the firewall itself... Is this really recommended?? What if the machine have been compromised and the intruder have installed a program that let's

Re: Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I've seen most people allow all outgoing traffic originating from the firewall itself... Is this really recommended?? What if the machine have been A server being a server (and a firewall is nothing but a specific server) there is no reason one would run a client application from that machine.