Firewalls and Services
You should consider security anytime you run processes that provide some kind of service over a network. For instance, if you have a website, that service is providing web pages to clients that make a request for it. The service does not pick and choose who gets what content. Instead, it hands that off to lower layer functions. What if a client makes a request that the process doesn’t have instructions on how to handle. Furthermore, what if that client…