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Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 1 of 2
Israel G. Lugo, Don Parker

The concept of a firewall still brings to mind the picture of an impenetrable brick wall, the unsurpassable magic protector of all that is good. The bold statements made by today's security vendors only emphasize this, with claims of complete and automatic security, with a wall able to block all perils dead in their tracks using logic that perhaps didn't exist two years ago. But what if in reality the wall of the firewall is made of straw?

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Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 1 of 2 2006-02-02
Anonymous (2 replies)
Re: Software Firewalls: Made of Straw? Part 1 of 2 2006-08-14
Anonymous
One big difference is that the hardware firewall isnt sitting on the intentional target on an attack. This includes if someone finds a way to hack the firewall (hardware or software) they will find that in the hardware envoirement the system wich usually is the intended target isnt comprimised and gives the controllers of that network additional time to react to the thread at hand. With the software firewall the intended host will be comprimised including all its native tools to expand throughout the network (other servers) and directly comprimise applications / data / system resources etc.

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