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Re: Reactive Firewalls
From: Rick Smith <rsmith () securecomputing com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:38:08 -0600
At 1:07 PM -0500 2/13/98, Rachel Rosencrantz wrote:
Not to sound too much like a text book, but there are 3 critical aspects in security. Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
Recently I've started to suspect that this particular decomposition of computer security isn't that effective. It evolved when compusec funding primarily targeted the confidentiality problem. Availability was declared to be a non-objective ("too hard") but people convinced themselves that some variant of the confidentiality problem could be "solved." I think it's interesting that you can have high confidence in availability without confidence in confidentiality and even even vice versa, but you can't have confidence in either of them without high confidence in integrity. But that's exactly what we don't have in the brave new world of COTS bloatware. Rick. smith () securecomputing com
Current thread:
- RE: Reactive Firewalls Stout, William (Feb 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Reactive Firewalls tqbf (Feb 11)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Darren Reed (Feb 11)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls John Lines (Feb 12)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Rick Smith (Feb 12)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Chris Brenton (Feb 13)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Rick Smith (Feb 13)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Joseph S. D. Yao (Feb 13)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Rachel Rosencrantz (Feb 13)
- Re: Reactive Firewalls Rick Smith (Feb 16)