Far away from the rarified world of theoretical security considerations on the
firewalls list there exists a real world It is called corporate America
A friend of mine works for a multinational corporation They get a news feed
by FM radio to a NewsEdge server The connection remains secure because it is
one way and nothing can get back over the radio People in the network log
into the NewsEdge machine to browse the news feed
Now a press company lets call it Afilliated Squeeze has come along with a grand
idea They want to replace the FM radio link with a direct line from an OS2
server in their own network and to replace the NewsEdge server inside the
multinational corporation with an OS2 server The Chief of Information
Security in the multinational asked Affilliated Squeeze about the security
features in their system Squeeze assured him their network and OS2 machines
are secure and nobody can break in The Chief of IS asked them What specific
security features does your network and the OS2 server have Squeeze said we
will have to check and get back to you on that
Now I dont want my buddy to be open to attack by the kinds of tools that are
widely available because then he might change his passwords Can somebody give
me an idea of what kind of security if any that Affilliated Squeeze might have
in place
MeOwMyX theDawgEatingCat
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