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<p class="para"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">With that in mind, look at the
decisions you've made about security and decide what you think your system
security goals should be. That may not be the policy that your site ends up
with, but it's an important.</font></div>
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<p class="para"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">The second step towards putting
together a working security policy for your site is to determine what
everybody else's security policy is. What do the users and managers expect
security to do for them? What do they think of the way security is handled
currently? What are other computer facilities doing and why? </font></p>
<p class="para"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Every site has at least one
security policy. The problem is that most sites have more than one; perhaps as
many as there are people involved with the site's computers. Sometimes this
proliferation of policies is purely unconscious; different computer facilities
within the same site may be doing radically different things without even
realizing it. Sometimes it's an open secret; administrators may be trying to
maintain a security policy that they believe is necessary, even though the
user population does not agree with them. Sometimes it's out-and-out war.
Generally, people think of universities as the main place where computer users
and computer administrators are engaged in open security warfare, but in fact
many companies spend large amounts of time fighting about security issues (for
example, administration and the engineers are often at odds).</font></div>
<p class="para"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Given the limitations and drawbacks
of firewalls, why would anybody bother to install one? Because a firewall is the
most effective way to connect a network to the Internet and still protect that
network. The Internet presents marvelous opportunities. Millions of people are
out there exchanging information. The benefits are obvious: the chances for
publicity, customer service, and information gathering. The popularity of the
information superhighway is increasing everybody's desire to get out there. The
risks should also be obvious: any time you get millions of people together, you
get crime; it's true in a city, and it's true on the Internet. Any superhighway
is fun only while you're in a car. If you have to live or work by the highway,
it's loud, smelly, and dangerous.</font></p>
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