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What are you protecting?

  • Are your systems physically secure?
  • If you don't have physical control of the box, it reduces the effectiveness of your logical defenses.
  • Is your data important or irreplacable?
  • For instance, financial records, classified data, etc?
  • Is your machine on the Internet?
  • You are vulnerable to scriptkiddies as well as others.
  • Static IP addresses are more vulnerable than dynamic. Cablemodems/DSL are worse. There is no external security An advantage to dialup links is that they are slow and security denies the instant gratification that immediate break-ins give.

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