We have a handful of servers that were affected by Code Red and Nimda. Nimda
shut us down for over 36 hours (complete shutdown - in a panic). It came in
through a shared drive before we could cut it off (the Network Admin didn't
know it was shared to a third party). I hate to think how much this cost us.
The Gartner report said for those companies affected by both viruses. That
implies companies that do not have a Security Administrator, or companies
that are "at risk" for contracting these type of viruses. Also, as you
suggested, I'm sure the author meant to light a fire under MS.
I don't make the decisions as to what OS our servers run, but TCO is getting
to be pretty outstanding on our (MS) servers, especially the ones that could
easily be hosted on another OS . Don't get me wrong, MS servers are great,
but we don't need all of those features on some of our servers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:59 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Check out what Gartner is recommending. Drop IIS!
Paul,
Rejoicing for a more secure product is certainly understandable but
Gartner's recommendation to dump IIS altogether is just plain dumb.
Replacing every IIS box makes absolutely no business sense and the cost
would be astronomical. In addition, a bigger part of the issue is the way
security, in general, is handled. Security through obscurity is not the way
to deal w/ a publicly accessible box and that seems to be the trend. I've
seen the way that many admins work (whether by choice or, in most cases,
because they're overworked) and they tend to ignore security advisories.
I am glad, however, that the report lit a fire under Microsoft's butt so
that people can continue to use a good web serving platform w/out having to
shift focus to a totally foreign platform (eg: Linux/Apache or Sun/iPlanet).
My 2 cents.
Rey...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Sizemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 2:00 PM
Subject: RE: Check out what Gartner is recommending. Drop IIS!
> When I read this from Gartner I rejoiced; check out how MS is responding @
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/21869.html
>
> Paul Sizemore
>
> Finish Line
> 3308 N Mitthoeffer Rd
> Indianapolis, IN 46235
> W: 317-899-1022 ext 3516
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rey Bango [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:03 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: OT: Check out what Gartner is recommending. Drop IIS!
>
> Now, I've always found Gartner to sway in a particular direction based in
> the wind changes and the phases of the moon but this recommendation is
just
> plain stupid. Check it out:
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7294516.html
>
> Rey Bango
>
>
>
>
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