RE: Here is a real reality check for every PC user...

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I agree with that. I did a project for a park authority once (lots of
political posturing and such) and one of the board members (lawyer by
trade) got in my face and demanded that I guarantee that the system I
had just established (VPN over the Internet) was absolutely hacker
proof. I refused to do so and told him that any computer system that's
attached to a network can be compromised. It's just a matter of time,
talent and resources.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCTECH] Here is a real reality check for every PC user...
> From: "Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, December 28, 2005 8:39 am
> To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Wow, this is sobering.
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> ''There's what I'll call best practices and then there's reality,'' says
> Hurley. ''Based on our research over the past two to three years, there are
> significant differences in performance results that companies are
> experiencing with their security programs. There are some common things that
> are done very well among the best-class enterprises suffering the least
> amount of breaches and damages. But even having said that, there's probably
> no way to defeat a serious security threat today and it wouldn't matter what
> the tool is. The only way to do that would be to unplug the computers.''
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> Read the whole thing here:
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> http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3573331
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> Chuck
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