On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Greg Skinner wrote:
> I agree that the security folks need to own responsibility for the
> firewalls, but I also think they need to work in conjunction with the
> networking folks, since firewalls are a part of an enterprise's
> connectivity infrastructure. If the firewalls or other networking
> components are Unix based, they should also work in conjunction with
> Unix people as is appropriate.
Part of the problem with this scenario is that in some cases, this may
be the only Unix box involved. The rest of the company maybe something
like Novell-based. Have you ever tried to get a Novell CNE to learn
anything but Novell? Let's put it this way, I would rather work on
making Java safe than try to "convert" a CNE!! :-)
scott barman
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