Nick,
Please if you don't know what the standards are, please 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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