http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2015/Jul/6/overcoming-paralysis-why-financial-services-organisations-have-to-race-to-update-their-windows-server-strategy.html
By Dave Foreman, ECS, Practice Director
Bob's Guide
July 6, 2015
Most of the technical support teams we work with know their Microsoft
Server operating system inside out and have hardly lifted their phone to
call Microsoft support in years. But this well-oiled machine is about to
become IT departments’ biggest headache. With the end of Microsoft’s
support for Server 2003 on July 14th 2015, migration from this rather old
operating system has escalated from being a niggling worry to a high-risk
agenda item.
Only a handful of businesses have started their migration and even they
will have to rely on Microsoft extended support. But this is not a
cost-effective or risk-free option in the long term.
At some point a new vulnerability in the operating system will be
discovered and exploited; businesses will be exposed and the regulators
will have a stronger case for non-compliance. According to the credit card
industry’s PCI Security Council standards, if an unsupported operating
system is Internet-facing, it will be logged as an automatic compliance
failure.
CIOs are caught between a rock and a hard place. Nobody wants to be caught
in a position where they have to answer tough questions about plans to
meet compliance and mitigate risk.
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