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Nathan M. Andelin wrote:
Someone must have suggested that multiple platforms are needed for security
purpose, and you believed them. That's sad.
Actually two highly respected books on security suggest that mixing
platforms makes your overall network more secure: Building Internet
Firewalls, 2nd Edition and Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd
Edition, both by O'Reilly and Associates. Of course mixing in a bunch
of weak machines probably wasn't what they had in mind.
But if you can't, then it is not an extremely acceptable
method.
Isn't the real reason for dividing Web services, applications, and database
services across multiple tiers in the Wintel world because a single box
won't handle the workload? You really haven't shown that it has anything to
do with security!
The same two volumes suggest the dividing resources as described does
enhance overall security by not putting all your eggs in one basket -
even if it is a very strong basket. Possibly in the wintel world the
load is too great, but not for real computers. But load isn't the
reason given, it is that by increasing the amount of work an attacker
has to do, you decrease the liklihood that the attack will succeed. If
an attacker has to compromise two machines to get your data instead of
one s/he will likely be more deterred than otherwise.
James Rich
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