On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote: > Young, Keith wrote: > > > >From Paul Vixie: > > > http://news.com.com/2010-1002_3-6139456.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 > > > > Exactly. When did we, the security community, stop believing in the > > K.I.S.S. principle and start believing in the "buy the latest > > IDS/IPS/firewall/enpoint-security/data-leak-protection/patching/vulnerab > > ility-scanner/harddrive-encryption/anti-malware/log-correlation/etc/etc/ > > etc/etc" principle that we are poorly implementing today? > > About 1987-89. > > Drsolly should be able to give you a more accurate answer -- when did > you sell your first AV product Alan?
Um, was it the start of 1989? And that's about when I launched Virus Fax International. > Do you know when John Make-A-Fee > sold the first copy of Scan (then called ViruScan IIRC)? I seem to remember that Sophos were selling their file checksummer for £199 per copy at about the same time. And they launched their commercial newsletter, Virus Bulletin at about that time too. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
