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Re: Home Storage Area Network security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geo.)
Sun Sep 21 20:19:39 2003

Reply-To: "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>
From: "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:14:42 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> What caused me to completely cross over into the "port filtering is OK"
> camp was the fact that Microsoft themselves, in a "securing Windows NT"
> document we found a while back, recommended that due to inherent
> insecurities, NetBIOS be disabled on Internet machines.  If the vendor
> says it shouldn't be connected to the Internet, I tend to agree.

So basically what you are saying is that it should be the network operators
responsibility to secure every application that might be used over said
network?

Geo.


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