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VPNs Illustrated: Tunnels, VPNS, and IPsec -- A Book Review
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Management loves buzzwords, but simplicity wins hands-down when it's time for maintenance and troubleshooting. One of the most wonderful things about Linux from my standpoint, a professional network engineer of many years, is that services can be turned OFF. I like Debian and other distributions where, unless you deliberately turn them on, there are no services at all.
I love IPSec tunnels, ssh, forward and reverse proxies. These are the tools of secure access in a world of packet sniffers, script kiddies, NSA snoops and other information Black Hats.
While it is true that no system that can be reached can be 100% secure, it is also relatively easy to make a system hard enough that only the most determined attack or most stupid user can even endanger it. And Thank Cromm, those two are still relatively few and far between.
Bob-