Hi!
I am new to this listing and would like to know what is the security
risk of having Pointcast running at the desktop?
Bandwidth waste or a real security risk?
Jamie
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Subject: Re: Pointcast - how to block....
Author: jonesmd @
unifiedtech .
com (Mike Jones) at INTERNET
Date: 2/14/97 2:34 PM
> I am well versed on the security problems facing Pointcast =
implementation
> (this list has been generous in discussing the issues of this =
technology).
> Now I have a site where we want to explicitly block **all** Pointcast
> traffic. (Its due to bandwidth problems, not security at the moment).
> Any pointers since there is little on the protocol that I have had
> in all my boundless free time to pick up....=20
> I'd like to hear some general ideas on how to secure it, and then also =
if
> you can address that I have at my disposal Netscape Proxy, FW-1, and =
fwtk
> (1.3) for this particular scenario.
I've done this for a couple of customers using FW-1. Just set up a rule
of source: www.pointcast.com, destination: any, protocol: any, action: =
drop.
That should do it.
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Mike Jones
Sr. Network Computing Advisor
UNIFIED Technologies
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