Management and systems personnel often assume that if they have a firewall, they have sufficient security and no further security checks are needed |
Some network services (like ftp, http, sendmail, telnet) are passed through the firewall |
External |
network |
Internal |
Mail, DNS, NIS, FTP |
Print, NFS, WWW |
Web |
Server |
Firewall |
DNS |
Multi-homed firewall |