Forwarded from: Tony | AVIEN / EWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are articles and papers everywhere talking about why Security Through Obscurity doesn't work as an effective security measure. It is a bureaucratic dream that if only you pretend the problem doesn't exist or hide its existence from the general population that the problem will go away. Do the students have to develop new viruses to learn about viruses- no. But, to quote Albert Einstein "You cannot solve the problem with the same kind of thinking that has created the problem." I think that to develop the next generation of virus defense we need people to get into the minds of the virus writers and think like them- use their tools, work the way they work. Maybe by doing so they can find the chinks in the armor before the bad guys and develop proactive tools instead of the reactionary virus defense we currently have. Read the article I wrote on this controversial topic: http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/generalsecurity/a/aa060303.htm Tony Bradley, CISSP, MCSE2k, MCSA, MCP, A+ About.com Guide for Internet / Network Security http://netsecurity.about.com Click here to sign up for the weekly Internet / Network Security Newsletter: NetSecurity Newsletter - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
