Hardware/Network
Exploiting the firewall beachhead: A history of backdoors into critical infrastructure - IT SECURITY GURU
Reported by itsecurityguru.org
There is no network security technology more ubiquitous than the firewall. With nearly three decades of deployment history and a growing myriad of corporate and industrial compliance policies mandating its use, no matter how irrelevant you may think a firewall is in preventing today’s spectrum of cyber threats, any breached corporation found without the technology can expect to be hung, drawn, and quartered by both shareholders and industry experts alike.