On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
And this is totally overlooking the fact that the vast majority of *actual* attacks these days are web-based drive-bys and similar things that most firewalls are configured to pass through.
Valdis, A firewall's job is to prevent the success of ACTIVE attack vectors against your network. If your firewall successfully restricts attackers to passive attack vectors (drive-by downloads) and social engineering vectors then it has done everything reasonably expected of it. Those other parts of the overall network security picture are dealt with elsewhere in system security apparatus. So it's no mistake than in a discussion of firewalls those two attack vectors do not feature prominently. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004