Kelly Martin, 2005-11-29
Securing endpoint systems by locking them down using complex software brings back memories of another era, where business computers were once used for business applications only - and businesses retained control over their assets and data.
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Regaining control
2005-11-29
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Re: Regaining control
2005-11-30
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
"Now that secuity is a major issue, they are focusing on that."
Maybe only one.
Security has ALWAYS been important to computing. I can still remember "secured" computing in 1970. When timesharing came out (I was an operator) we had "restricted" times where the computer was dedicated to handlin...
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Maybe only one.
Security has ALWAYS been important to computing. I can still remember "secured" computing in 1970. When timesharing came out (I was an operator) we had "restricted" times where the computer was dedicated to handlin...
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Re: Re: Regaining control
2005-11-30
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Pay attention to your quote. "Now that security is a major issue, they are focusing on that."
It doesn't say that security is just now becoming important. It says it is now a major issue and software vendors are in fact focusing on that. The "Security" you used in 1970 cannot compare to the is...
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It doesn't say that security is just now becoming important. It says it is now a major issue and software vendors are in fact focusing on that. The "Security" you used in 1970 cannot compare to the is...
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Re: Re: Re: Want my IP for my workstation ? fine
2005-12-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
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Re: Re: Re: Regaining control
2005-12-01
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Anonymous (1 replies)
You said:
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It doesn't say that security is just now becoming important. It says it is now a major issue and software vendors are in fact focusing on that. The "Security" you used in 1970 cannot compare to the issues faced today. Sure security has ALWAYS been important, b...
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It doesn't say that security is just now becoming important. It says it is now a major issue and software vendors are in fact focusing on that. The "Security" you used in 1970 cannot compare to the issues faced today. Sure security has ALWAYS been important, b...
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2005-12-02
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
"many of the security problems that arise today have had known solutions since the 1970's"
Bull! The security issues of the 1970's have long been solved and forgotten. 99% of the security problems we have today are related to the Internet. The Internet didn't even exist back then.
"Viruse...
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Bull! The security issues of the 1970's have long been solved and forgotten. 99% of the security problems we have today are related to the Internet. The Internet didn't even exist back then.
"Viruse...
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2005-12-03
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Anonymous (1 replies)
Anyone who has been trained in Information Securiyt knows that the Internet is not a vulnerability, and the only reason todays problems are related to the internet is because it provides faster replication then Floppy Disks. The vulnerabilities are still the same ones, buffer overflows, lack of inp...
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2005-12-06
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Anonymous
You don't have to be trained in Security to know that the Internet is not THE vulnerability, but it is the reason we have to worry about these vulnerabilities. How do you think these buffer overflows, input validations, etc are being exploited? These are not problems from the 70s, they only become...
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2005-12-03
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On the other hand, there is simple way to avoid mail viruses. No one is trying to keep it secret, in fact, many are broadcasting it as they can. Still, mail viruses are spreading. (Even the "unzip encrypted attachment" ones).
If you are curious, that simple way is never execute any email attachme...
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If you are curious, that simple way is never execute any email attachme...
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Regaining control
2005-11-30
Anonymous
Anonymous
Not to mention that you focus on Windows desktops as if there was no other solution in the world. I personaly haven't used Windows in 5 years and I haven't seen a virus since Anna Kournikova (feb 2001?). Guess why.
BTW, don't give me the marketing of 'x % of the users are using Windows'. I will rep...
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BTW, don't give me the marketing of 'x % of the users are using Windows'. I will rep...
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good grief
2005-11-30
Anonymous (3 replies)
Anonymous (3 replies)
The paragraph that begins "It is possible to have a very secure business computer on a network..." is the perfect model for how to suck employee morale down to nil. As the sole IT person for a small company, a large part of my job is building and maintaing user trust, so that when I do need to insti...
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Re: good grief
2005-11-30
Anonymous
Anonymous
"The future of IT security lies in software vendors taking the problem seriously, not in forcing users to hate their jobs."
I'd have to take just a bit of exception to that. While the ideas in this article do lay out a very draconian roadmap for us to follow, I'd say that only part of the future ...
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I'd have to take just a bit of exception to that. While the ideas in this article do lay out a very draconian roadmap for us to follow, I'd say that only part of the future ...
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Re: good grief
2005-11-30
Don Parker (2 replies)
Don Parker (2 replies)
Heh, far, far too many people equate having a computer at work with being able to surf the web endlessly. Locking down what is a company assett has squat to do with employee satisfaction. Employee satisfaction has one basic principle and that is having a job to begin with. If employee's are actually...
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Re: Re: good grief
2005-12-01
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
I see where you're coming from, but I think the nature of the workplace is changing in a way that is important to consider:
There has been (especially in the office-work world) a continuing integration between work and non-work. Peoples' individual identities are to a greater or lesser extent ti...
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There has been (especially in the office-work world) a continuing integration between work and non-work. Peoples' individual identities are to a greater or lesser extent ti...
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Work@home and vice-versa
2005-12-25
Anonymous
Anonymous
Well said.
As a network/systems admin I *don't* want to be part of the Thought Police who decide what you're allowed to do with the company equipment. I'm perfectly ok with you checking bank balance, doing personal email, surfing porn, whatever you want. Really! I think it's the manager's job to...
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As a network/systems admin I *don't* want to be part of the Thought Police who decide what you're allowed to do with the company equipment. I'm perfectly ok with you checking bank balance, doing personal email, surfing porn, whatever you want. Really! I think it's the manager's job to...
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Re: good grief
2005-12-06
Anonymous
Anonymous
Are you serious? While the role of the IT administrator isnt to be a total dick to users, it is not the role of IT to bow to users to make them happy. My job as a network administrator for three different clients is to provide functional systems to accomplish the business tasks for which they were p...
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Sounds like a good plan to me
2005-12-01
Eric (3 replies)
Eric (3 replies)
I know I wouldn't like it myself at first, but I'd get used to it.
Just make a white list of external sites that are OK. I don't think it would be too much of a security stretch for people to be able to check local weather, traffic, the bus system, etc. Then there would be whatever sites tie in ...
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Just make a white list of external sites that are OK. I don't think it would be too much of a security stretch for people to be able to check local weather, traffic, the bus system, etc. Then there would be whatever sites tie in ...
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Re: Sounds like a good plan to me
2005-12-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
"Just make a white list of external sites that are OK."
That may be fine for the few people in the world that don't use the web for their job, but as a software developer, I would not be able to get my job done without the web. There would be no way you could white list all the possible places I...
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That may be fine for the few people in the world that don't use the web for their job, but as a software developer, I would not be able to get my job done without the web. There would be no way you could white list all the possible places I...
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Re: Sounds like a good plan to me
2005-12-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
What about the exemption process? Working in a fortune 500 company, this is a challenge I run into all of the time. I have to leave the office and work from alternate locations to get all aspects of my job function performed due to such measures. And that's AFTER I had to create a custom build of...
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Re: Sounds like a good plan to me
2005-12-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
Why can't you accept there is NO one-fits-all solution ? Yes, with Windows and IE on computer of almost all professions we are in one exterme (the "bad security" one). Article presents the other extreme. What we really need is to develop several compromise solutions, each a trade-off between user re...
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bla bla bla
2005-12-02
Anonymous
Anonymous
Why are you yapping about the relative security of browsers based solely on your interpretation of the vulnerabilities disclosed? Are you a researcher? Have you read a drop of the mozilla code? Reversed any IE? FYI, they're ALL full of holes. We haven't even scratched the surface yet. It's funn...
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For many years software companies did not focus on security, they focused on providing a product that performed a specific function. Now that secuity is a major issue, they are focusing on that. It is all ...
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