[99745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating demand for IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Oct 3 12:37:23 2007
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:29:43 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
cc: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20071003205024.97b0b1d4.nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Mark Smith wrote:
>
> The value of network perimeterisation as a security measure, of which
> NAT is a method, is being questioned significantly by network security
> people. The obvious example of why it is being questioned is when the
> CEO brings their laptop inside the "gooey" centre, bypassing the "hard
> shell" corporate firewalling/NAT box, and infecting all the devices on
> the corporate network with the malware they've caught from their home
> broadband connection.
Universities have understood this for many years, with the termly influx
of infected student computers.
Tony.
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