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Re: Common operational misconceptions
From: Chris Campbell <chris () ctcampbell com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:26:26 +0000
This isn't so much a list of misconceptions that recent students have as a list of misconceptions that security management haveā¦ On 15 Feb 2012, at 22:52, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
ICMP is evil. Firewalls can be configured default-permit. Firewalls can be configured unidirectionally. Firewalls will solve our security issues. Antivirus will solve our security issues. IDS/IPS will solve our security issues. Audits and checklists will solve our security issues. Our network will never emit abuse or attacks. Our users can be trained. We must do something; this is something; let's do this. We can add security later. We're not a target. We don't need to read our logs. What logs? (with apologies to Marcus Ranum, from whom I've shamelessly cribbed several of these) ---rsk
Current thread:
- Re: Common operational misconceptions, (continued)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Doug Barton (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Mark Andrews (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Doug Barton (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chuck Anderson (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Carsten Bormann (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Mike Lyon (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Phil Dyer (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Anton Kapela (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chuck Anderson (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jeff Kell (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Carsten Bormann (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Rich Kulawiec (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chris Campbell (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jeff Kell (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Chris Campbell (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Alexandre Grojsgold (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jeff Wheeler (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Lee (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Wayne E Bouchard (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Justin M. Streiner (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Tony Tauber (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Wayne E Bouchard (Feb 16)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Masataka Ohta (Feb 15)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Nathan Eisenberg (Feb 15)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Steve Bertrand (Feb 15)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Nathan Eisenberg (Feb 15)