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Re: [FW1] Hardening of OS



All packets are indeed processed by the FW module before they reach the
application - it sits between L2 and L3, but there are usually a number of
back doors, or local security problems that need to be ironed out.
If you don't harden your OS, then you're asking for trouble - what if a
hacker got inside your network another way (eg via modem), or what if one of
your employees got the hump ?
That's why local security is so important.


----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Tan Wee Beng <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 18 March 2001 04:40
Subject: [FW1] Hardening of OS


>
> hi...
>    I was having a disussion with a engineer on hardening the OS and he say
> that actually there's not a need to harden it since the inspection module
is
> sitting on the kernel level.This means that all packets will be processed
by
> the module before they reach the OS.If the packets do not pass inspection,
> they are either dropped or rejected according to the rule base.So is it
> true???
>
> Cheers
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