Check Point NG: Next Generation Security Administration
Learn to implement a strong security solution using Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Check Point NG: Next Generation Security Administration
The Evolution of Trust
One of the more powerful forces that guides technology is what is known as network effects, which state that the value of a system grows exponentially with the number of people using it. The classic example of the power of network effects is the telephone: one single person being able to remotely contact another is good. However, if five people have a telephone, each of those five can call any of the other four. If 50 have a telephone, each of those 50 can easily call upon any of the other 49.
Let the number of telephones grow past 100 million. Indeed, it would appear that the value of the system has jumped dramatically, if you measure value in terms of "how many people I can remotely contact." But, to state the obvious question: How many of those newly accessible people will you want to remotely contact? Now, how many of them would you rather not remotely contact you?
Asymmetric Signatures between Human Beings
At least with voice, the worst you can get is an annoying call on a traceable line from disturbed telemarketers. Better yet, even if they've disabled CallerID, their actual voice will be recognizable as distinctly different from that of your friends, family, and coworkers. As a human being, you possess an extraordinarily fine-grained recognition system capable of extracting intelligible and identifying content from extraordinarily garbled text. There turns out to be enough redundancy in average speech that even when vast...
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