Re: HIPAA and firewalls

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From: Gregory
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:48

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Leythos wrote:
> One thing I like about the WG firewall units (the 700 and above) is that 
> they have both Web and SMTP filters that when properly configured 
> eliminate most of the problems with bad web sites (block lists and 
> removal of active-x, scripting) and virus infected attachments (by 
> extension). In the last year, with one large client, not one virus 
> infected email made it past the firewall for the AV software to havet o 
> deal with.

I prefer componentization. Seperating the content inspection system from 
the VPN server insulates the VPN server from potential bugs (hence 
potential vulnerabilities to compromise) in the SMTP and HTTP 
inspection/extraction code. I recognize, Leythos, you are sensitive to 
Irwin's recurring mention of price, but considering HIPAA, I thought it 
prudent to mention.

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