From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 20:28:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3014737B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:28:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id FAA58186; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 05:28:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3AA1C457.E28E40AF@eboa.com> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 05:28:07 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: bcohen@bpecreative.com, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Firewall vs. Black Ice References: <001001c0a231$a5e1a6a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ... > However, if your not willing to invest the time into either, then > you should look at paying someone who has the experience to do this > for you. One advantage of using FreeBSD is that the FreeBSD server > CAN be remotely administered. You could, for example, set up your > FreeBSD system then get a FreeBSD consultant to ssh into your server > and set a really tight access list for you. But that's just it, isn't it. A cost-benefit analysis. I.e. how much will it cost to detect and restore a cracked site versus the cost to make it a tad bit more harder to crack the site. Personally I'ld rather err on the safe side, but MicroSoft has shown by its continued existence that the world thinks otherwise. IOW MS grocks the world, sad as it may be. The last statement you made, however, is I think unbeatable by whatever PC/Anywhere gadget out there. Remote administration is not where NT++**?? shines. Roelof -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EBOAź web. http://EBOA.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message