Watch them fire the head of security for "not making me fully aware of the
possible consequences". I've had that thrown at me when what I had things
turned down because "that is a hypothetical risk", and of course, the risk
happened and they came pissed off to me yelling "why didn't you tell me this
could happen!?".
Lets face it, the big companies are like the Ford and GM of the 1970's, they
don't care, they make too much money. The Open Source movement is going to
become the Toyota.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frederick M Avolio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:11 PM
To: Ng, Kenneth (US); 'Ken Seefried'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: NAI & McAfee website hacked.
At 03:54 PM 12/5/00 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>To be fair, it was an external hosting company that was hacked, and not an
>NAI network or host.
At 05:20 PM 12/5/00 -0500, Ng, Kenneth \(US\) wrote:
>Bottom line: NAI and McAfee should have known better. Chances are the
>security staff knew better but were overruled by the bean counters, who of
>course are only concerned with the bottom line of the current quarter.
I agree wholeheartedly. This is not Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. This is
supposedly the largest security company in the world. They ought to be
ashamed of themselves and someone ought to get fired.
None of the large security companies are security companies any more. Check
Point hasn't ever been. TIS was and PGP was but they're lost in NAI. Raptor
was, but was eaten by Axent and now Symantec which used to be an AV company
but now is moving into the same realm as NAI... Big big business. Let's
make millions for the CEO. Faster, cheaper, is better. Bigger is better.
The Walmart of the security business.
Let smaller security product companies take heed.
Fred
Avolio Consulting, Inc.
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