Start-up to promote security system for servers

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Working at a large financial institution whose sole purpose is to worry about logins and provide single sign on as well as being well versed in desktop security, the effort of any company who is trying to make computing more secure is great.

In practical terms security is something that a hell of a lot of people pay lip service to but that is as far as it gets.

Breaking into the security business and being profitable is NOT easy task. For starters many organizations (and about 99% of end users) do not leverage the facilities that are already available to them.

As in many other general cases I've observed, technology is not the answer, e.g., thinking that a content management system will solve your organization?s ineffectiveness with communications and/or requirements gathering when projects are taking place is naive.

While I congratulate the effort of anyone trying to make headway in the security space by starting a new company, this just strikes me as more of the same.

Yes they may file patents and may create something fancy but "fancy" is not the answer. For example, the Windows NT kernel has had Access Control Lists (ACLs) since day one yet amazingly practically no one uses them - either explicitly or having the sense to operate under a ?Limited Account.?

I muse when I go to SecurityFocus.com and read the security experts complaining about viruses. If these folks had any clue they would get the word out that stunting the credentials that users operate under is something that has existed since the 1960's when the notions of "computer accounts" debuted.

Unfortunately Microsoft can?t be bothered to educate its own users. I give Microsoft a failing grade on its overall security efforts. But my tangent has gone way off now.

Yes I know, I can hear end users complaining already, "Oh, but that's inconvenient." Ok, so leave your house keys at home and your doors unlocked since carrying keys is annoying... not to mention they occasionally poke holes in your pockets. And heck, leave the doors open while you?re at it since you may be coming home with grocery bags in tow. This analogy is not far from the truth of how many businesses and practically all users operate their computing technology.

We don?t need new security products, we need to educate users on being effective with the tools that have already been afforded to them but are completely ignorant on.

Awesome,
-M

PS: Big deal

Posted by: betelgeuse68   Posted on: 01/21/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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