Re: Who stay focused? (was: [Fwd: Question])

If the final technical decision is being made by non-technical and 
obviously clueless person, you seem to just work in a wrong place.
I'd quit immediately.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:37:59PM -0500, Behm, Jeff wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:22 PM, Jean-Denis Gorin so spoke:
> > So, my question is: among all of you, old timer firewall wizards, 
> > how many stay focused to infosec
> 
> </quasi-lurker>
> 
> Don't know that I'm really a true "old-timer[1]," but...I have lived
> through the waning days of Gauntlet, getting replaced by the *more*
> secure (yeah, whatever) Checkpoint, getting replaced by the more
> advanced (ok, cheaper) PIX/ASA. Trying to explain the benefits of App
> Proxy vs. Packet Filter proxy to layer 8 is obviously futile (at least
> it was in my case).