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Firewalls

Well-designed security systems fail gracefully, SonicWALL does not

December 6, 2008

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To quote Bruce Schneier, “well-designed security systems fail gracefully”. This means for example when the ISA firewall service fails it closes off network connectivity entirely (ie retains security) instead of opening your entire [...]

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Tom Shinder on “hardware” firewalls

August 31, 2007

Tom Shinder of ISAServer.org takes an amusing shot at the myth in some circles that a “hardware” firewall or “firewall appliance” offers more security than a Microsoft ISA Server firewall.

I was drawn to a particular quote in his article about the relative security of ISA Server to other popular firewalls in the context of the [...]

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