RE: sniffing packets on a switch

2003-03-10 Thread Fields, James
Several posters have replied recommending you use Ettercap. I strongly urge you NOT to do this if you are on a corporate network. Ettercap attempts to defeat the normal behavior of the switched environment using something called "arp poisoning" to trick hosts on the switch into sending you their

RE: Firewall recommendations?

2003-03-10 Thread Fields, James
I have run both Checkpoint and PIX in my environment. I have seen some of the "classified" documents you are referring to - look at the source. I believe they are marketing documents from Checkpoint or Nokia. The PIX is a true stateful inspection firewall. No "weird" ports have to be open for E

RE: Remote access solution

2003-02-27 Thread Fields, James
I had started to type up what I thought VNC does on login; then I decided to simply post this link. It should answer any question about security around the initial authentication: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q55 -Original Message- From: Chris Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: e-mail policies

2003-02-25 Thread Fields, James
Your company simply cannot respect the privacy of its employees with respect to E-Mails sent through your own E-Mail servers. Employees should be required to read and sign off on acceptance of an E-Mail policy, in which it should be made crystal clear that their communications using corporate reso

RE: DMZ and VPN

2003-02-18 Thread Fields, James
I'm not sure understand the question. You mean having the same box acting as both a DMZ FTP server and also an endpoint for VPN tunnels? That's seriously complicating things. Primary rule for security: simplify. If you can't figure out the implications of doing something, you probably can't sec

RE: TCP Syn Flooding

2003-02-18 Thread Fields, James
You have received a lot of replies to this already, but I have a slightly different take on this. The message says the traffic is sourced from port 80 and coming back to a high port on your end that would normally be in the range used by client software (like a web browser). There actually does ap