Re: [FW1] Firewall-1 - Denial of Service Attack Successes ?

[Tim Winders <twinders@SPC.cc.tx.us>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to Tim Winders:
> >
> >Good point.  But, as the Net Admin, I make the policy!  ;-)
> >
> 
> You write the policy but it must be endorsed by management, they don't
> need to fully understand the technicalities involved but they need to
> agree that these are the services we allow through the firewall.  This
> takes the politics away from your decisions and (should) stop people
> pressuring you to modify the policy on the fly.
> 
> Our firewall policy runs to about a page and pretty much says "we
> block everything except these services, blah blah...".

Yes, that is the basic framing of any fw policy, isn't it?  ;-)

=== Tim

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