Wall, Kevin wrote:
I agree that central administration works best in today's corporate environments, but I was referring also to the more general desktop environments as well, right down to the home and SOHO users that have to install and/or update their own.Isn't this something that users probably shouldn't be given a choice on? Normally I would think that corporate security policy dictate keeping the AV software / signatures up-to-date as well as dictating the (personal) firewall configurations. Some centrally administered software should do these things...
Aside from that issue, though, the primary point that I wanted to get across is that there are substantial limitations to what we can accomplish through user education. I believe that our software -- from enterprise app servers through desktop emailers and browsers -- needs to do better at protecting users, even when they make decisions that we would think to be unwise.
Cheers,
Ken van Wyk