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Subject: Re: A "real" security expert
From: Christian Wettergren <cwe @ it . kth . se>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 95 12:01:02 +0200
To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi @ rahul . net>
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 30 Mar 95 17:49:45 -0900. <199503310149 . AA19750 @ bolero . rahul . net>

| I have an idea about how to find a real security expert.
| 
| Find somebody who has no firewall and essentially no packet filtering
| and has run a publicly visible site for some years, but has had no
| serious intrusions.
| 
| A challenge?  Yes.  To allow little or no outside access and maintain
| security is quite easy -- it takes not much expertise.  To achieve the
| same result with no real barrier between the world and you except the
| inherent security of your internal machines and network -- that takes a
| real expert to achieve.

But that really easy! I would say most sites would not detect an intrusion
unless the intruder wants that to happen. So it would actually be the default
case.

(Not entirely serious, though)

/Christian Wettergren, cwe @
 it .
 kth .
 se


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