Re: "Client Security" solutions

2011-08-08 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:13:58AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: > > A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It > > rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody > > quite dared to sell, was a rackmount box that could be plugged into a > > punter's netw

Re: "Client Security" solutions

2011-08-06 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Peter Corlett once stated: > On 5 Aug 2011, at 21:32, Roger Burton West wrote: > [...] > > A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It > > rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody > > quite dared to sell, was a rack

Re: "Client Security" solutions

2011-08-06 Thread Peter Corlett
On 5 Aug 2011, at 21:32, Roger Burton West wrote: [...] A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody quite dared to sell, was a rackmount box that could be plugged into a punter's network and show a reassu

Re: "Client Security" solutions

2011-08-05 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:18:49PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: >And why doesn't snake oil do just its one damned job, either? A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody quite dared to sell, was a rac

Re: "Client Security" solutions

2011-08-05 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Gert Doering [2011-08-05 21:35]: > Why oh why can't something that should be a "virus scanner" > just do exactly *that*, And why doesn't snake oil do just its one damned job, either?