yeah, agree, 'on the network' is a bad phrase. long form: completely 'eliminate' the network by closing all inbound firewall ports (not even allowing dynamic

yeah, agree, 'on the network' is a bad phrase. long form: completely 'eliminate' the network by closing all inbound firewall ports (not even allowing dynamic hole punching), and then opening ephemeral, session-specific L3 outbound connects (from both sides* of the session) only for authorized sessions (strong auth - not IP-address based auth). * requires intermediate 'gateways' which can bridge both sides to enable bidirectional data flow, initiated from either side