02 Academic Firewalls
Description
This article is from the computer-security/secmaillist FAQ, by Christopher Klaus cklaus@iss.net with numerous contributions by others.
02 Academic Firewalls
To join, send e-mail to majordomo@net.tamu.edu and, in the text of your
message (not the subject line), write:
SUBSCRIBE Academic-Firewalls
This is an unmoderated list maintained by Texas A&M University. Its purpose
is to promote the discussion and use of firewalls and other security tools
in an academic environment. It is complementary to the Firewalls list
maintained by Brent Chapman (send subscription requests to
Majordomo@GreatCircle.COM) which deals primarily with firewall issues in a
commercial environment. Academic environments have different political
structures, ethical issues, expectations of privacy and expectations of
access.
Many documented incidents of cracker intrusions have either originated at or
passed through academic institutions. The security at most universities is
notoriously lax or even in some cases completely absent. Most institutions
don't use firewalls because they either don't care about their institution's
security, they feel firewalls are not appropriate or practical, or they
don't know the extent to which they are under attack from the Internet.
At Texas A&M University we have been using a combination of a flexible
packet filter, intrusion detection tools, and Unix security audit utilities
for almost two years. We have found that simple firewalls combined with
other tools are feasible in an academic environment. Hopefully the
discussion on this list will begin to raise the awareness of other
institutions also.
Continue to:
My Books
