How to Cheat at Managing Information Security

The purpose of this chapter is to:
Help you decide where to put those firewalls
Help you decide how many of them to deploy
Describe the other key components of infrastructure security that you need to make it look like you know what you re doing
I may be a violent, raging psycho but I m sensitive. And I always buy my wife a nice birthday present and something nice for Valentine s Day. My wife used to be an executive officer at the local council but gave it all up to teach kiddies arts and crafts (design and technology, they say but whatever floats your boat!). When she was finishing her teaching course, we were watching a DIY program on TV where some bozo makes a 40 table out of 700 of wood, and she announces, Buy me a router for Valentine s Day. I know she has no idea about money, so I didn t remark that the router would cost quite a bit more than the average card and chocolates.
At work, I recouped the losses by gaining full comic value from all the lads around. Look at my wife s Valentine present! I shouted as all the blokes pawed the JCB (nothing but the best) yellow monster while all the women flicked hair and tsch ed to no effect. All the blokes wanted to be as Cool n Hard as me.
At home, I gave this beautiful router to She Who Must Be Obeyed and got no response. Finally: Oh, she said. In my...