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Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:03:12 +0530
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:22:17 +0000 (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow <christopher.morrow () mci com> wrote:
there are others of course... it's not the OS that matters in the long run, it's the administration of that OS (or so it seems to me, admittedly not a sysadmin though, anymore). Sure, initial/default installs might be problematic in one/all OS's, but by and large extended lifetimes on a live/hostile network means patches must be applied. Seems like that doesn't happen by and large.
[waiting for an OpenVMS user to speak up] Frankly, from an operational perspective, I guess the only way to go is to trust the inside of your network even less than you trust the outside ... and have processes that quickly isolate and block access from / to compromised hosts till they are fixed. Modulo various "100% efficient" solutions that I see advertised, we do need a reliable, and quick reacting, way to do this. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists () gmail com)
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- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing, (continued)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Larry Smith (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Charles Cala (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Robert E. Seastrom (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 19)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Alexei Roudnev (Dec 20)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Morris (Dec 19)
- RE: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Scott Weeks (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 20)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Adrian Chadd (Dec 21)
- Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing Matthew S. Hallacy (Dec 21)