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RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions
From: "Melson, Paul" <PMelson () sequoianet com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:40:39 -0400
There are two purposes, the first, and main is *operational*
outsourcing.
24x7 coverage, alerting, event interpretation and reporting, platform maintenance, etc. The second is being able to ask "what's the best
way to
do $foo?"
Alerting and event interpretation sound like risk analysis tasks to me. If your service provider isn't doing some form of risk analysis based on their knowledge of your environment and the Internet in general before contacting you, then you could probably replace them with a software product, yes?
Anyone who expects magical insight is fooling themselves at the price points MSSPs charge. A full security service looks at a heck of a lot
more than just the firewall ruleset (and costs a heck of a lot more
than
managed monitoring of one or two devices.)
I couldn't agree more. If you read back to the beginning of the thread, I gave this exact piece of advice to Frank when he first broached the subject. It's important to work with a vendor that brings more to the table than just "a few guys that can write access-lists." I guess because I work for the latter, I failed to distinguish between a service provider that only makes requested changes to the firewall and one that manages the firewall in conjunction with a bevy of other security services. PaulM _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions, (continued)
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- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions R. DuFresne (Apr 19)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Mike Hoskins (Apr 19)
- Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions R. DuFresne (Apr 19)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Behm, Jeffrey L. (Apr 19)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Melson, Paul (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Dave Piscitello (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Mark Tinberg (Apr 25)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul D. Robertson (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Dave Piscitello (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Melson, Paul (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Paul D. Robertson (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Melson, Paul (Apr 21)
- RE: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions Dave Piscitello (Apr 21)