"You're letting an outside organization have control of one of your computers. You're okay with that? "
Ever read the Microsoft EULA, especially regarding the Service Packs and automatic update ??? In the early days it was a huge thorn in HIPPA compliance efforts ... Let alone how the 'trusted certificates' list is vetted and populated <g> Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: LogMeIn On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:01 AM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > I work for a company with ~300 employees, is there a reason to > discourage a few of our employees from installing LogMeIn Free on their systems ... You're letting an outside organization have control of one of your computers. You're okay with that? Cool, can I have control of one of your computers, too? I promise I won't do anything bad. Pinky swear! Sure, all these remote-control companies claim to have great security. *Everybody* claims that. And yet, major security problems keep on happening, all over the place, all the time. From this, we can conclude that claims of great security mean precisely nothing. "Security problems" don't have to mean them taking over the world. It doesn't have to mean organization-wide intent. It could be one employee with a grudge. Or maybe an undetected remote compromise on a server in their datacenter -- these are high-profile targets, and custom malware would be undetectable by signature-based virus scanners. Or maybe they cut back on security spending when the economy tanked. It might not be something you could detect -- passive monitoring would be invisible. It might not even be something with specific intent -- maybe random malware makes it into their systems, and then propagates over the remote-control system to you. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
