Re: PCI DSS & Firewalls
[email protected] (Jim Seymour)
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Bill McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yikes! > > Wouldn¹t it be nice if we all lived in Marcus¹ world? [snip] It'd be a damn sight nicer than living in the world in which we currently find ourselves, where, due to vendor irresponsibility and end-user cluelessness (encouraged by said vendors, IMO), the concept of "network security" has become a joke. > > In the meantime, we really ought to be helping folks move from WHERE THEY > ARE to WHERE THEY NEED TO BE, ... [snip] That's pretty damn funny, considering how "folks" got to where they are in the first place. [snip] > ... we really need to recognize that > wide-eyed idealism, however well-intentioned, is never a reasonable > replacement for dealing with the vagaries of the reality we actually > inhabit. What Marcus is promoting isn't "wide-eyed idealism," it's reality. That reality being there's no such thing as "kind of secure." It's either secure or it's not. You, and those who believe, or purport to believe, as you do are promoting "good enough." Well, half-way measures are *not* "good enough," *never* have been "good enough" and never *will* be "good enough." Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.linxnet.com/contact/scform.php>. _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list [email protected] https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards