Re: About Operating Systems security

["yannick'san" <yannicksan () free fr>]

Could you recommand me some good books, or white papers for that ?
Thank you in advance,

-Yannick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: About Operating Systems security


> > From: "yannick'san" <yannicksan () free fr>
> > Oups! sorry if it was not clear.
> > I'm not asking you for any application recommandation nor any OS
> > recommandation. In fact my question should be ennonced like that : how do
> > you do when you want to introduce a new OS in your companie ?
> > Some mails earlier, I've been told to calculate the TCB (Trusted
Computing
> > Base) of the whole system and since that, I concentrate my efforts on it.
>
> I'd say the only real objective way to decide is cost based.  Look at the
> total cost of ownership/transition and if it's cheaper then you should
> probably switch.  As much as people bash Microsoft (myself included),
> security isn't really about what product you use, but how you use it.
>
> Chris Berry
> compjma () hotmail com
> Systems Administrator
> JM Associates
>
> "All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe
and
> a quick recompile."
>
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