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Why do companies take so long?
I don't know about everybody else, but I can tell you why *we* haven't installed them...

Our standard desktop template (the one that is put on every desktop and laptop when it is first loaded) has over 27 different applications on it. And that's only what we start with - tossing in all the applications that are unique to separate business units, this number changes to over seventy. In order for us to deploy a new application to the template like, say, anti-spyware tools, we need to test every single one to make sure that the existing applications' performance is unaffected by new tool. This takes a lot of time and staff that, frankly, we don't have.

This is why it takes us a couple of weeks (or more) to deploy new service packs. This is also why we aren't on XP and are two versions back on Office.

You can pontificate all you want to about how companies that don't deploy all of the latest and greatest security stuff are either unsophisticated or criminally negligent, but the reality is that computers here are used to support the business, not the other way around. There are some times that I've had to make security decisions that I really didn't like because chosing otherwise would cause an application that is critical to a business function to fail. Yes, we eventually got to where we need to be to increase security, but we can't always do it as quickly as we would like. This is reality - we're here to support the business, not the other way around.
Posted by: OldeTimeGeek   Posted on: 10/28/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I hate to say it  htotten | 10/27/04
Anti-Spyware Software  Chad_z | 10/27/04
Our costs have not gone up  toadlife | 10/27/04
Not to be to much  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
Missing the point?  toadlife | 10/27/04
Ditto here  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Let's try again.  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
Try all you like  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Damn...  Cardinal_Bill | 10/27/04
OK, It's not free  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Cost of Security  Stephen Wheeler | 11/03/04
I'm surpirsed you're continuing this line of defence  Richard Flude | 10/27/04
To begin with  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
Actually you've said it repeatedly  Richard Flude | 10/27/04
Re: Actually you've said it repeatedly  PA-ITGuy | 10/27/04
To PA  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
The shill is strong in you  NonZealot | 10/27/04
The shill is strong in you also  middle of nowhere | 10/27/04
...  toadlife | 10/27/04
The shill is stronger in you  NonZealot | 10/27/04
I prefer it Windows not install Spyware  voska | 10/27/04
Firewalls  mobrien_12@... | 10/27/04
i use a differnet firewall  V Sanders | 10/27/04
No argument from me there.  mobrien_12@... | 10/27/04
Corporate, corporate. corporate  htotten | 10/28/04
only because  V Sanders | 10/27/04
Shill is Shrill  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
Spybot is your friend...  wolf_z | 10/28/04
Commercial options  ibabadur1 | 10/27/04
Yawn  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/27/04
This is news to me  NonZealot | 10/27/04
You mnay run into problems running the executable  Sunny Jalolly | 10/27/04
I addition to Sunny's response  Roger Ramjet | 10/28/04
Focus shill  NonZealot | 10/28/04
IE's fault  DarthRidiculous | 10/27/04
Expectations and knowledge  Sunny Jalolly | 10/27/04
Expectations and knowledge  htotten | 10/28/04
most corporations do not *encrypt*  V Sanders | 10/27/04
most corporations  htotten | 10/28/04
Bigger problem or final solution?  Update victim | 10/28/04
Divide  htotten | 10/28/04
Why do companies take so long?  OldeTimeGeek | 10/28/04

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