[RKDinOKC]

Am so glad I'm no longer in charge of network security at the company.

They no longer have a DMZ for the pubic servers, a security nightmare.

The worst of it...because of lack of DMZ they have the firewall setup so it sends alert emails every time it sees a potential hack. Potential hacks are to web servers what junk email is to email servers. It's like receiving an alert message every time someone sends a message that might be spam. ARGGGH

They added me to the alerts message list because the Mac ftp server started receiving hack attempts for Wordpress and the Joomla content management systems. Those aren't even on the server!

Went in a turned off the "file not found" messages and tada! The firewall no longer sends alerts for my Mac servers. The bad is they won't take me off the firewall alerts mailing list so I receive a message every two or three minutes from the attempts to hack our Windows servers.

Good thing I'm smart. Put a rule on my incoming messages to check the firewall messages for the mac server IP addresses, if they aren't about a mac server they go directly to my deleted items. Since it's a server side rule I don't get a new email notice on my phone every 3 minutes.

And they treat me like I don't know what I'm doing.