> Think of it like this: you have a guard, you have a fence and you have > barbed wire on top of the fence. Can you secure the place without the > barbed wire? Of course. Can an intruder defeat the barbed wire? Of > course. Is it more secure -with- the barbed wire? Obviously. > NAT is like the barbed wire. Anyone with a pair of wire cutters doesn’t need to defeat the barbed wire, they just cut the fence instead.
But I understand how the barbed wire makes you and management feel warm and fuzzy. The problem here is that NAT is also like a big blind spot in the video cameras that should be helping you spot the guy cutting the fence. Owen