Re: Where do firewall Admins Sit in An Company

[Tony Miedaner <miedaner () twcny rr com>]

Thanks for the response,

What really irks me is that I believe the so called "security mainstream" 
is pushing dotted line reporting Security Management, at least in the 
non-government arena.  It is doomed to fail.  I have seen over and over 
that security concerns get a low priority in dotted line reporting 
structures and response is horribly slow.


At 06:15 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, R. DuFresne wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tony Miedaner wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > Ahhh...the problem is that if security doesn't know the baseline and
> > doesn't know the network and the services running on it (keep in mind very
> > large network) how effective is it.
> >
>
> Which, according to Marcus and a few others I've had conversations with
> from this and other lists is quite common, many, perhaps far too many,
> companies lack a clue about what really traverses their network.  Thus all
> the troubles integrating/shimming IDS comfortably into an environment..
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Ron DuFresne
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