Zero Viruses In 2005?

Zero Viruses In 2005?
Kelly Martin, 2004-12-16

It's the time of year to reflect on the good security choices you've made over the year, the defense-in-depth strategy that you've decided to follow, and plan for your response to future threats and virus outbreaks.

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Zero Viruses In 2005? 2004-12-19
Todd Knarr

I think desktop management systems might not be the best goal. For example, working at Flying J, desktop management for security was a non-issue. We had X terminals with no local storage. Applications we needed were stored on and ran on the main servers. The admins updated the software on the servers, we got the new software with no delays, no admin intervention needed and no way to side-step it. For a lot of standard corporate jobs, eg. sales, customer service, secretary or administrative assistant, accounting clerk, the apps they need aren't display-intensive enough for X procotol network latency to be a real problem. Even if you need to have them running apps locally, having the apps installed on a network-mounted filesystem gets the same result: no need to update local PCs when apps are updated. This seems to me to be a better solution than the software complexity needed to keep hundreds of PCs with non-trivial local configuration in sync.

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