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Re: "How to assess your ISP's security policy" article

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Feb 12 20:12:40 1999

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:55:13 -0600
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu

Interesting, but missing the first question I normally ask.

When was the last time you did a backup?  If you can't remember,
we can discuss firewalls after you go do one.


mjc@cooper.ORG.UK (Martin Cooper) writes:
>For those of you that have not already seen it, I thought
>you might be interested to read my article published in
>Network Week (UK) today, "How to assess your ISP's security policy".
>You can find it in the RTFM section. Flames etc. to /dev/null
>please - I realise this article may not go down well with all
>service providers if their security needs some work - a
>possibility for which I make no apologies!
-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation

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