Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

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

Your comparison doesn't work.

It's not A versus B, it's A versus C, with C being "Company does
nothing because it can't afford a thorough security program."

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Michel Messerschmidt
<lists () michel-messerschmidt de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:02:48AM -0700, Shaqe Wan wrote:
> > I am not stating that PCI is good in no way, but I am saying that its a MUST for companies dealing with CC. And in a 
> > windows environment, an AV is important.
>
> Did you consider that an anti-virus may actually be the worst security
> solution for certain threats because it allows companies not to think
> about security while providing insufficient protection?
>
> What's your choice:
> Company A installs an anti-virus and updates it regularly (BTW regularly
> includes once a year).
> Company B has a recovery concept, incident response team, vulnerability
> monitoring, patch management, NIDS, security training but no anti-virus.
>
> > He probably thought that I am with the rules of PCI, or that I don't have any idea that the world is not just 
> > WINDOWS !!!
>
> No, I don't think so.
>
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