That would depend on what types of compliance you are trying to meet. For example, PCI compliance requires periodic virus scans be performed on systems that are prone to virus attacks. This pretty much excludes all MAC and *NIX systems.
At the same time, there are also differentiations in PCI for system types. Mobile devices (laptops, pda's etc) are treated differently from a firewall perspective. The bottom line is that there is no one standard. Rather, organizations seem to develop policies based on the business needs that they are trying to meet. Tal -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:41 AM To: 'Patrick Cable'; seph Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Desktop policies and UNIX-ish operating systems > > I'd ask a different question -- How are your policies for these > machines > > different than your policies for other desktops? (ie: why are you > > special casing windows?) > > It's not a matter of windows being "special cased" -- windows (and > osx) have already been dealt with policy wise. I'd like to reiterate this question, because I don't think you answered the heart of the question - for curiosity - I am curious what policies are being created, that need to distinguish between windows and non-windows? For example, the no porn policy surely applies to both. The ethics and data privacy policy applies to both. So what policies are there, that only apply to windows or non-windows? _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
