Re: A point of view from the other end of the spectrum...

[H Carvey <keydet89 () YAHOO COM>]

I fully agree with BOA's statement.  I know you guys 
(sysadmins) are overworked.  I presented a paper 
(http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/usenix.html) at the Usenix 
LISA-NT conf, and had the opportunity to hear Marcus Ranum 
speak.  Funny guy...kept the crowd's attention with his 
jokes...and he had a message.  Part of the message was that 
you guys should look to tools that automate security 
management...which, oddly enough, was the focus of my 
paper...automating policy-based security management for NT.

ForixNT has been released to do just that 
(http://patriot.net/~carvdawg/forixnt.html).  ForixNT is an 
NT audit scanner and a toolkit that NT admins can use to 
automate security management.  Take a look.  There is a demo 
available, as well as an example output of the full version.