At 11:03 PM 11/16/2002 -0500, ~Kevin Davis� wrote:
If this is the case, and it's not a simple matter of lack of Linux/BSD experience, then the user probably needs a good copy of Microsoft Word to work on Resumes. Some will argue politics in IT is a reality. I would argue that when politics trump security, compromise is an inevitability. And so it is written: woe be unto the data owners whose custodian prevents security engineers from using *nix, or windows, or a TRS-80.There are a lot of big companies out there with all kinds of political problems like this where people are protecting their little empires. In a conference sessions at Infosec last year, serveral people indicated such problems existed within their companies. Now, I don't know if it got down to the level where they could not get a Linux system to use, but it wouldn't suprise me.
Don't know why this topic has touched a nerve today....I guess I've just watched one too many networks slide off into the clawing hordes of a bazillion kiddies while departments argue over who maintains the router password. Then you're asked to draft a memo for sales to wrap in "security is of utmost importance to us...." stuff.
-Mike
CISSP, CCNA, yada yada
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