Re: [fw-wiz] Personal Firewall Day?

From: Charles Miller (cmiller_at_pastiche.org)
Date: 10/04/03

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    On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 09:45 AM, Paul Robertson wrote:
    >
    > My proposal is that we have a "Personal Firewall Day." Where we all
    > try
    > to get home users (and corporate users if applicable/possible) to
    > install
    > home or personal firewalls, up-to-date Anti-Virus software, etc. I'm
    > thinking this would be best soon after Christmas, so we have a chance
    > to
    > get all the new PC presents covered as well.

    Interesting timing:

    'To combat the problems with patch management, however, the company
    [Microsoft] is moving to a "securing the perimeter" strategy where it
    will partner with various firewall companies to ensure that electronic
    attacks don't even reach their intended targets but are instead
    thwarted at the edge of the network, or what network specialists call
    the perimeter. Microsoft's security shift was first revealed in
    mid-September when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during a speech
    that the company was working on "shield technology." In the speech, he
    said, "the most important technology area we are focused on is shield
    technology. We know bad guys keep writing viruses. The goal is to block
    them before they get on PCs."'

    http://wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=40423 (October 2nd)

    Charles Miller 

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