On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:35:49PM +0000, mbm wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:53:06 +0000 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
None of the places I know about have a proxy as such. It's surely not normal to have one on a small home/SoHo LAN, you just tell all systems (probably automatically) what their default route is and that's it.
Maybe not at home but....
We don't have one at work either.
I find that surprising. Certainly my experience is the opposite (my background is government). But even a relatively small network would benefit from the kind of defense in depth provided by:
packet filtering router - application proxy - client side AV and firewall.
If you don't have a proxy (or application layer firewall with proxy capability) how can you enforce a web usage AUP? And where would you put your web sheepdip?
It's a (mostly) development office so there *aren't* any restrictions at all on web usage. One has to be moderately careful (for example) when doing Google searches that one doesn't drag up something a bit embarassing by mistake. :-)