Firewalls: Trends and Problems

Presented at DEF CON 7 (1999), July 11, 1999, 2 p.m. (50 minutes)

This talk will cover some of the new firewalling trends and how many of them are detrimental to security. The focus of this talk will be on how the discussed trends work and how they can be used by an attacker to defeat security, and how security problems can be avoided. The discussion will not cover specific products in order to allow anyone to apply the subject matter to their current configuration.

Presenters:

• Steven Alexander
  Steven works for a small ISP, attends his local college as a math major and spends his free time studying cryptography.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 7/DEF CON 7 video/DEF CON 7 - Alexander - Firewalls Trends And Problems.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBjyRLlFl8w

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