Corporate Anti-Virus strategies

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 12:41:38PM -0400, Ed Hill wrote:
> These days, the Linux situation has changed in two big ways:
> 
>   1) By default, most current Linux distributions are quite 
>      secure.
> 
>   2) Essentially all updates can be automated so that 
>      they require little or no manual attention by trained 
>      admins. 

I would also add a third point:

People take their security more seriously now. Security wasn't even a
subject of discussion for the average ISP user a few years ago; now
everyone is at least talking about anti-virus systems, anti-spam
systems, firewalls, VPNs, and so forth. 

This is more important than it may initially seem: security needs
action, and action isn't taken without discussion. If your average user
has never thought about security, it's much harder to convince him to
close a hole.

Now we have people thinking and talking about security... so we have a
chance of getting them to do something about it.

-dsr-

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