Think out of the box (Score 1)

Legislation is not proactive, punishment is not proactive, internet and network security is definitely not proactive. Most Laws are created and justified out of a need for either political or practical reasons, but always reactionary. Criminal and Civil punishment result as breaking laws but no matter how severe the punishment there is someone who is smarter and takes the risk. Lastly, the root of this problem is the current offering of networking security products not really addressing the problem of the porous nature of a firewall. Nearly everything that was built as impenetrable has been breached. Fortresses were built stronger but all had their achilles heel which was the gate and all defenses were focused on that gate. A firewall basically does the same job, but instead of a gate, it protects ports. The added mortar and stone is in the form of NACs and other traffic cop packet analyzers. The other difference is when a castle was breached the invaders stood out, whereas the invader is hidden, like a rootkit or MITM attack. The network security appliances and software generate logs and alerts but the Sys Ad is more worried about his gaming clan and making sure that his PIX is not audited and the CTO discovers that server MNLB2344-WEST2344CMP is actually running CS source. So is there a way to transact data through a firewall with all ports closed?