I don't know, but, when I face such issues, I document and pass up the
chain the info and let those in the big leather cushy chairs make the
final determinations. My butt's been covered and then their's is on the
line.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote:
> Watch them fire the head of security for "not making me fully aware of the
> possible consequences". I've had that thrown at me when what I had things
> turned down because "that is a hypothetical risk", and of course, the risk
> happened and they came pissed off to me yelling "why didn't you tell me this
> could happen!?".
>
> Lets face it, the big companies are like the Ford and GM of the 1970's, they
> don't care, they make too much money. The Open Source movement is going to
> become the Toyota.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick M Avolio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:11 PM
> To: Ng, Kenneth (US); 'Ken Seefried'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: NAI & McAfee website hacked.
>
>
> At 03:54 PM 12/5/00 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >To be fair, it was an external hosting company that was hacked, and not an
> >NAI network or host.
>
>
> At 05:20 PM 12/5/00 -0500, Ng, Kenneth \(US\) wrote:
> >Bottom line: NAI and McAfee should have known better. Chances are the
> >security staff knew better but were overruled by the bean counters, who of
> >course are only concerned with the bottom line of the current quarter.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly. This is not Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. This is
> supposedly the largest security company in the world. They ought to be
> ashamed of themselves and someone ought to get fired.
>
> None of the large security companies are security companies any more. Check
> Point hasn't ever been. TIS was and PGP was but they're lost in NAI. Raptor
> was, but was eaten by Axent and now Symantec which used to be an AV company
> but now is moving into the same realm as NAI... Big big business. Let's
> make millions for the CEO. Faster, cheaper, is better. Bigger is better.
> The Walmart of the security business.
>
> Let smaller security product companies take heed.
>
>
>
>
> Fred
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