Re: Is IIS worth the risk?

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

John:

I have to state that I do not consider myself a "security specialist" even 
though the company that currently employs me competes in that space -- I was 
hired for other reasons. I'm actually something of a "generalist", as are many 
others on this list. And my participation here is usually from personal 
interest, both in sharing knowledge when I have it and in learning from others 
which happens often.

OTOH, my current boss... um... kind of "wrote the book" as far as iSeries 
security goes and we have a couple others who qualify, so maybe I could drop a 
suggestion or two. I definitely agree that SOMEone should write. Maybe even 
MANY someones.

Tom Liotta

On Mon, 31 December 2001, jpcarr@tredegar.com wrote:

> I'm tellin ya, some people should write to the editor's and to the writers
> (maybe some of our resident security specialists here heh Tom?)
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/12/24/011224tcpcp.xml
>
> John Carr
> -----------------------------
> On Mon, 31 December 2001, "Adam Lang" wrote:
>
> > Quote from article:
> >
> > "Worms, site defacements, and DDoS (distributed denial of service)
> attacks
> > strike non-Microsoft servers daily. Microsoft simply makes a juicier
> target,
> > mostly by virtue of its gigantic installed base, than any of its
> > competitors."
> >
> > Which is a load of crap.  This justifies email viruses.  Apache owns 60%
> of
> > the webserver market.  IIS about 20 to 25%.
>
> What really interests me about this is that the quote was from the pro-IIS
> contributor to the article.
>
> Tom Liotta

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