What a strange thread. Everything else in the list concerns protecting the
network behind the firewall, this thread is concerned about protecting the
firewall itself.
Firewall software is separate from the platform it runs on. The platform
(O.S.) should be administratively hardend already. Since there are no user
accounts on a firewall, security ratings based on ability to protect the
O.S. from users is irrelevant. Firewall software runs as root as designed
by ultra-paranoid firewall programmers.
William B. Stout
Senior Systems Administrator
Hitachi Data Systems
Open Systems Center
Santa Clara, California
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