Re: Are Security Experts giving into NT?

[Neil Ratzlaff <neil.ratzlaff () ucop edu>]

I also see a lot of products for NT compared to unix.  Without a lot more 
NT training than most NT administrators (or we) have, supporting NT is not 
something we can guarantee, so we don't.  Not doing NT curtails our 
choices.  For example, there are several anti-virus checkers that 
interoperate with Checkpoint FW-1, but only one of them runs on unix.

Neil



At 16:10 11/17/99 -0800, Burden, James wrote:
> It seems that every time that I turn around there is a 'Security' vendor
> trying to sell me a software solution that is NT only, or where I am
> required to use an NT console.  Even companies who use to support UNIX only
> solutions are moving to this methodology.
>
> Is this just me?  Or is everyone seeing the same thing?  Are you demanding
> that they support a UNIX only solution?  Do they pretend to listen?
>
> I understand that there are religious wars on the subject, but that aside.
> If you give NT to a UNIX only shop then you can say that security has been
> down graded.  I say this because, the UNIX shop does not have the proper NT
> support.  The cost of an Intel platform, the OS, the software may all be
> cheaper, BUT this shop now has to procure NT knowledge for Sys Admin,
> security engineers, network engineers, developers, and etceteras.
>
> Security implementations of NT is very different than UNIX.  They are two
> different animals.  Take the same thing that I mentioned above and reverse
> NT and UNIX and it would still be true.
>
> I understand vendors preference to serve NT first, just give me my choice of
> UNIX.
>
> Happy Hunting,
> Jim
>
> James L. Burden, Security Engineer and Architect
> California Independent System Operator
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