[olug] Security

[Nate Rotschafer]

A very valuable lesson for someone starting out or a profesional managing 
many servers was learned by a couple of us last night.  You are never secure 
if you have any external access to your network be it SSH, 
internet...anything really.  If someone wants in they will find a way in and 
the only way around it is a strict security policy such that people are not 
running services that can be exploited to gain access to a computer on an 
internal network.  So please tomorrow let us stress security in this day and 
age when any little "script kiddie" can get access on your computer...let's 
help the new people configure ipf properly to only allow what they really 
really want to have external access to have it.  Let's explain that 
sometimes security means reduced "fluff".  It is a lesson we learned last 
night/this morning very well I believe...right Brian?  Just my $.02....

Nate Rotschafer

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