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Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question])
From: "Behm, Jeff" <jbehm () burnsmcd com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:37:59 -0500
On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:22 PM, Jean-Denis Gorin so spoke:
So, my question is: among all of you, old timer firewall wizards, how many stay focused to infosec
</quasi-lurker> Don't know that I'm really a true "old-timer[1]," but...I have lived through the waning days of Gauntlet, getting replaced by the *more* secure (yeah, whatever) Checkpoint, getting replaced by the more advanced (ok, cheaper) PIX/ASA. Trying to explain the benefits of App Proxy vs. Packet Filter proxy to layer 8 is obviously futile (at least it was in my case). In this economy, it seems to me that unless one is in a large-to-huge enterprise, I'd bet not many are able to focus *strictly* on only infosec. While that's still my primary function (and has been for over a decade), I'm not able to focus solely on that. Now, along with "infosec" there's Windows server implementation (on VMWare, on standalone hardware, etc.), Unix admin, infrastructure architecture, and managing a variety of security "appliances" that, while not necessarily perfect, are much better than before we had them. And yes, there's always the "do the best you can with what you have to work with" mantra, that, like it or not, does exist blah, blah, blah[2].
and had kept a global view of infosys) ?
Global view of infosys? How can one *not* have a global view. Maybe I take that for granted (but shouldn't), because if I had a nickel for every time a developer/implementer could have made things better if they would have had the "big picture" view... Jeff [1] Definition of "old timer", please? (or perhaps maybe I shouldn't want to know that answer) [2] Not trying to resurrect a previous thread of "you're either secure or your not vs. how much security do you want to buy?" <quasi-lurker> _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Jean-Denis Gorin (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Paul D. Robertson (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Skip Carter (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Anton Chuvakin (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Skip Carter (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Chris Blask (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) R. DuFresne (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Behm, Jeff (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Brian Loe (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) R. DuFresne (Apr 23)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Behm, Jeff (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 15)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Paul D. Robertson (Apr 14)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Devdas Bhagat (Apr 16)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 16)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Devdas Bhagat (Apr 20)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) ArkanoiD (Apr 20)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Devdas Bhagat (Apr 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) Jean-Denis Gorin (Apr 17)
- Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question]) hermit (Apr 24)