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| Subject: | Re: Choosing a firewall (was Re:firewall suggestion) |
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| Date: | Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:39:33 -0500 |
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:20:34 -0600, Kevin <kkadow@gmail.com> wrote:
Just playing devil's advocate here, but shouldn't security appliance selection be driven by the *security* features implemented by each vendor? I'd hope that all vendors are pretty much on equal footing in the arena of stateful inspection packet filter features, and the real differentiation would be in layers 5-7, with buzzwords like signature scanning and protocol anomaly detection and "application layer" attack mitigation taking center stage.
And Checkpoint has claimed such features for years. That didn't stop Dug Song, Thomas Lopatic, and John McDonald from making total swiss cheese of Firewall-1 a few years ago based on their authentication, state table, and application inspection exploits. Why haven't we seen a similar audit of PIX or Netscreen, in all these years? Does anyone REALLY know if PIX or Netscreen aren't swiss cheese already? - Bob N.
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