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collective, of products that is marketed within a firewall context.
This context is referred to by some as an SCM offering. Central
management of a host of firewall duties is the goal, something
intended to de-stress the life of the network administrator and sim-
plify security controls.
Some sources (Task Force on Information Warfare and Information
Assurance) estimate that over 20 million people on this planet are
equipped with and are knowledgeable in the use of cracking tools.
It’s no surprise, then, that in the last few years, permutations in
methods of attack have telescoped like a power function while
the solutions and ...