Get your IT staff involved when creating firewall policies TechRepublic TechRepublic says there are four steps to implementing a good security policy to go along with the security software and hardware you may have guarding your network. Look for the next article slated to discuss how to monitor and implement your firewall policies. You can use TechRepublic's sample policy to compare with the one you already have or as a basis for the one you should already have.
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Other vendors, however, have not endorsed XML as a common platform, favoring instead alternatives such as Jave 2 Enterprise Edition. But some say it's an attempt to push a proprietary structure on the rest of the interested parties. Although networking vendors who are participating in the Distributed Management Task Force's DEN efforts haven't been in the news recently, columnist says that work is proceeding, and progress is being made to bring their products closer to the standard. Delivering on the promise of control Network World DEN, QoS and policy-based management give network managers greater control over their networks. In 1999, PC Magazine gave Firewall-1 its Editors' Choice award for being the number one tool for implementing a firewall.