Open All Outbound Ports?

From: tony tony <tonytorri(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 20:33:52 EST

Hi,

Our firewall group has came to me several times over the last few months wanting my approval to open all of the “OUTBOUND” ports on our firewall facing the internet. Their argument is that this would not significantly reduce our security and it will reduce their time/effort in administration. They claim they get several requests a week to open up out bound ports and the number keeps growing each month. They want to go for the gusto…and open up all 65,000+ outbound ports.

I am in the security area and they want my agreement/sign off before they do this. It just does not “feel/smell right” but I am losing ground with my arguments. What are some good arguments I can use?

Tony

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