Friday, June 10, 2005
Why it's hard to get a straight answer from a security consultant
Why do you hear about "risk management" and "tradeoffs" when you're shelling out big bucks for the simple task of keeping bad guys out of your network?
The reason you get complicated answers to simple questions is that there's some risk in taking security measures. After all, every security product you install makes things more complicated and is one more thing to go wrong.
There were a couple of good examples earlier this year when anti-virus products went bad and brought systems down.
That's why I'm not recommending anti-virus software on Macintoshes (yet). This could change tomorrow, but right now the virus threat is so low that anti-virus software doesn't seem to be worth the hazards.
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The reason you get complicated answers to simple questions is that there's some risk in taking security measures. After all, every security product you install makes things more complicated and is one more thing to go wrong.
There were a couple of good examples earlier this year when anti-virus products went bad and brought systems down.
That's why I'm not recommending anti-virus software on Macintoshes (yet). This could change tomorrow, but right now the virus threat is so low that anti-virus software doesn't seem to be worth the hazards.
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