Nick, Please if you don't know what the standards are, please don't post junk and foolish comments just to state your opinion:
Read: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss.shtml See Requirement #5. Read that requirement carefully and its not bad to read it twice though in case you don't figure it out from the first glance ! Also, I said that using an AV is some basic thing to do in any company that wants to deal with CC, its a basic thing for even companies not dealing with CC too !!! Or do you state that people must use a BOX with no AV installed on it? If you believe in that fact? Then please request a change in the PCI DSS requirements and make them force the usage of a non Windows O.S, such as any *n?x system. Finally, the topic here is not about "default allow vs default deny" and if I understand what that is or not! You can open a new discussion about that, and I shall join there and discuss it further with you, in case you need some clarification regarding it. Regards, Shaqe --- On Sun, 4/25/10, Nick FitzGerald <[email protected]> wrote: From: Nick FitzGerald <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 1:57 PM Shaqe Wan wrote: <<snip>> > Because it shall be nonsense to deal with CC, and not have an Anti-virus for > example !! Well, you see, _that_ is abject nonsense on its face. Do you have any understanding of one of the most basic of security issues -- default allow vs. default deny? There are many more secure ways to run systems _without_ antivirus software. Anyone authoritatively stating that antivirus software is a necessary component of a "reasonably secure" system is a fool. Anyone authoritatively stating that antivirus software is a necessary component of a "sufficiently secure" system is one (or more) of; a fool, a person with an unusually low standard of system security, or a shill for an antivirus producer. So _if_, as you and another recent poster strongly imply, the PCI standards include a specific _requirement_ for antivirus software, then the standards themselves are total nonsense... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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