Who is not protected by a firewall today? Nobody! Our Internet (as well as local) traffic is inspected by multiple firewall layers. They are present everywhere: on Internet gateways, in front of data-centers, between departments, even your workstation is running a firewall. For a few years, a new type of
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Avoid the “Any” Rule Like the Plague!
Even if next generation firewalls are at our door (filtering at applications level – layer 7), most firewalls are still working with source and destination ports. I often see firewall change requests submitted by customers to add rules like: “Allow traffic between X and Y” without further details. And when