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Subject: Re: Cisco PIX
From: Mike Shaver <shaver @ neon . ingenia . ca>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:59:23 -0500 (EST)
To: rjb @ calyx . net (Robert J. Brown)
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . BSF . 3 . 95 . 961127220021 . 19898A-100000 @ mojo . calyx . net> from "Robert J. Brown" at Nov 27, 96 10:08:55 pm

Thus spake Robert J. Brown:
> And no, it is not a good idea to put the mailhub in the DMZ. Regardless of
> where you put it, sensitive corporate data is located on that machine. It
> should be inside the perimiter and incoming and outgoing mail proxied.

Only if you've got sensitive corporate data travelling outside your
firewall in the clear.  Which is, as you would say, bad bad bad.

Mike

-- 
#> Mike Shaver (shaver @
 ingenia .
 com) Ingenia Communications Corporation 
#>           Resident Linux bigot and kernel hacker. (OOPS!)           
#> `If you get bitten by a bug, tough luck...the one thing I won't do  
#> is feel sorry for you.  In fact, I might ask you to do it all over  
#> again, just to get more information.  I'm a heartless bastard.'     
#>                       -- Linus Torvalds (on development kernels)    


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