[fw-wiz] SAN storage & firewalls

From: Phil Burg (burg_phil@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 17:42:01 PDT

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    Folks
    
    an e-commerce proposal has reared its head in here, where a
    SQLServer 2000 box will be deployed to back-end an Internet-
    facing e-commerce environment.  The SQL box will be firewalled
    off from my production network, in accordance with our published
    security standards - no problem there.
    
    The issue is that the developer wants to use our company's
    storage area network instead of local disk for the SQL box.
    The storage guys here don't believe there's any way a compromise
    can occur, since there's no IP connectivity.  While I can't think
    how you would attack the internal network this way, it still gets
    my hackles up on principle.
    
    Does anyone have any practical information, either pro or con,
    about this idea ?
    
    thanks
    Phil
    
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