Dear Rich, Emilio and Robert,
thanks for your interesting input on this subject. I forward all this to
Philippe. He is well equiped in firewalls, but maybe he can ameliorate still
more these things.
with best regards, Guido
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> From: rjnjr <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 05:44:28 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: attacks on websites
>
> Dear Guido:
>
> I am the Chief Technical Officer for a large Printing company and I can
> sadly say that the kind of attacks you are experiencing are all too real. I
> have three firewalls in place, 1 in front of our main corporate Internet
> feed (a Nokia firewall with Checkpoint software), 1 in front of a special
> server in a data center [another Nokia firewall with Checkpoint Software]
> and a third in front of another server. All told I spent over $70,000 USD on
> firewalls, configuration and troubleshooting this year and I had to hire a
> solid Firewall techie to manage these devices. They are complicated and a
> single wrong setting can stop all your traffic!
>
> The good news is that these firewalls work, we are free from Denial of
> Service Attacks, hackers and viruses, but what a price to pay to keep
> hackers away.
>
> I would heartily suggest that you find an Internet Service Provider who has
> very solid technical expertise and let them host your servers behind their
> firewall. They will help you get safe.
>
> I am so sorry that you have been treated this way - it is a shame that
> someone who publishes such great material would get treated this way/.
>
> Best of luck
> --
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Robert J. Nuelle, Jr.
> Webmaster
> The UniverShell Trading Company
>
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