Depends on the vendor and the pricepoint. It's really a mixed bag. The result is either a lot of properly secured systems, or a boatload of insecure ones.
And the clients in need of that outsourcing are usually lacking the skills or resources to verify. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jun 16, 2010 7:58 AM, "Ziots, Edward" <ezi...@lifespan.org> wrote: ASB, Did you find that outsourced was better or worse than directly managed when it came to security of the systems….? Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA Network Engineer Lifespan Organ... *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time to verify your IIS setup True. My focus was not on IIS itself, but on whether the owners of the affected systems were directly managing the boxes vs outsourced management of the boxes. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Ziots, Edward <ezi...@lifespan.org> wrote: Problem is that its not IIS in itself that is the problem is the web-application running on IIS th... Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA Network Engineer Lifespan Organizatio... *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 15, 2010 5:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Time to verify your IIS setup More important to me is, "How many discrete managers of IIS systems/environments does this represent?" I mean, on one level, if a single ISP hosting 500 discrete sites for clients is a victim, that'... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Sam Cayze <sam.ca...@rollouts.com> wrote: Dang. I was just curious... How many IIS sites are there in the world? Roughly 780K. So if the ... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~