On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Fred Heutte wrote:
My observation had more to do with the posturing of the "security" vendors (anti-virus, firewall, IDS, etc.) and the broad range of highly important experts who are all clamoring for attention on this and on all the other everyday security issues out there. There is certainly a need for security services and products and activities, but I am just not enamored of the "security mindset." This is just a part of what our job is so let's get on with it.
And if we can convince the PHBs that moving off of Windows is (1) feasible, which is obvious; (2) manageable for them, which is not so clear, so much the better. I've broken my hammer pounding this particular nail, so having failed at moving management away from Windows, I moved myself away from management.
You do of course realize that there is entire industry and quite a number of vendors whose main products involve fixing bugs, closing holes and providing timely updates for that insecure and buggy OS. If the OS was not like that, the industry would be much smaller as would the job area that involve security and other associates OS maintanance actiity. Notice also that most managers do come from the MS world and they see this all as quite normal after many years. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net