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Hello.
i hope that this is the right place to send this, if not, please omit, or
kindly direct me to a newsgroup that may help.
A collegue of mine went to a security conference where Microsoft was one of
the keynotes. He learned that MS isn't running a firewall on their
webservers because there isn't a firewall that is capable of scaling to
their needs. all MS servers are patched ASAP and are running IPSEC for any
sessions to the server. Now, he wants to take away our perimter firewall
(Cisco PIX), and do what MS is doing.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Any pros/cons, experiences? Is
there a name for this? I don't think this is a true application firewall
gateway, but perhaps i am mistaken.
thanks for any advice folks!
ben
i hope that this is the right place to send this, if not, please omit, or
kindly direct me to a newsgroup that may help.
A collegue of mine went to a security conference where Microsoft was one of
the keynotes. He learned that MS isn't running a firewall on their
webservers because there isn't a firewall that is capable of scaling to
their needs. all MS servers are patched ASAP and are running IPSEC for any
sessions to the server. Now, he wants to take away our perimter firewall
(Cisco PIX), and do what MS is doing.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this? Any pros/cons, experiences? Is
there a name for this? I don't think this is a true application firewall
gateway, but perhaps i am mistaken.
thanks for any advice folks!
ben