Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

[Mike Hale <eyeronic.design () gmail com>]

"Then, as I said, the PCI requirements are total nonsense..."
You say this based on absolutely zero understanding of what the
requirements are, by your own admission?

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Nick FitzGerald
<nick () virus-l demon co uk> wrote:
> Tracy Reed to me:
>
> > > Anyone authoritatively stating that antivirus software is a necessary
> > > component of a "reasonably secure" system is a fool.
> >
> > No, they just think all the world is Windows.
>
> My comments were, and still are, OS agnostic.
>
> It matters not what the OS -- anyone authoritatively stating that
> antivirus software is a necessary component of a "reasonably secure"
> system is a fool.
>
> Ditto my second comment...
>
> > > So _if_, as you and another recent poster strongly imply, the PCI
> > > standards include a specific _requirement_ for antivirus software, then
> > > the standards themselves are total nonsense...
> >
> > PCI only requires antivirus for systems commonly affected by
> > viruses.  ...
>
> Then, as I said, the PCI requirements are total nonsense...
>
> > ...  This means Windows. PCI security council has said that UN*X
> > OSs etc. are not required to have antivirus.
>
> So what system and application integrity requirements do they require
> for those OSes (presumably "instead of antivirus")?
>
> Your response strengthens my belief that PCI is dangerous because it
> enshrines small-minded ignorance as "best practice" (or, at least, as
> "minimally acceptable practice") without recognizing the possibility
> that there may be better options that have not been so, ummm "over
> sold" as to become perceived as necessary.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>
>
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