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A Firewall You Don’t Watch Is Just a Speed Bump — The NMS Manifesto
A Firewall You Don’t Watch Is Just a Speed Bump — The NMS Manifesto
A Firewall You Don’t Watch Is Just a Speed Bump — The NMS Manifesto
A Firewall You Don’t Watch Is Just a Speed Bump — The NMS Manifesto

A Firewall You Don’t Watch Is Just a Speed Bump — The NMS Manifesto

I’ll say it plainly: the best firewall in the world, configured perfectly, with the latest firmware and the tightest rules, is exactly as effective as a speed bump if nobody is watching it. A speed bump slows a car down. It doesn’t check if the driver has stolen the car. It doesn’t tell you where

The Slammer Worm, 23 Years Later — What That Day Taught Me About Speed

January 25, 2003. A Saturday. I was at my desk—because in cybersecurity, Saturdays are just Thursdays with better coffee. I’d been in the industry for about a decade at that point, running network operations. We’d seen worms before. Code Red. Nimda. The usual chaos. Nothing—and I mean nothing—prepared us for SQL Slammer. At 05:30 UTC,