Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:20:53 +0400 (MSD)
From: Oleg Broytmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Insurer considers Microsoft NT high-risk
[...] An insurance company has started to charge 5-15% more if you use
Windows NT as a base for Internet services:
"We saw that our NT-based clients were having more downtime" due to
hacking, says John Wurzler, founder and CEO of the Michigan company, which
has been selling hacker insurance since 1998. Wurzler said the decision
to charge higher premiums was not mandated by the syndicates affiliated
with Lloyd's of London that underwrite the insurance he sells. Instead,
the move was based on findings from 400 security assessments that his firm
has done on small and midsize businesses over the past three years.
Wurzler found that system administrators working on open-source systems
tend to be better trained and stay with their employers longer than those
at firms using Windows software, where turnover can exceed 33 percent per
year. http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2766045,00.html
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