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Well-designed security systems fail gracefully, SonicWALL does not

December 6, 2008

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 network up (ie decreases security).
This week SonicWALL’s license servers suffered a glitch rendering thousands of customer units useless and leaving the customers’ [...]

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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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