The successful CEO's of the future will be technology friendly. I admire your CEO. Time has come to embrace technology as part of the business process. We are not working with type writers and file cabinets anymore. It is time for the old school business executives to get on board and realize the change.
I can chop down a tree with an axe and take an hour to do it, or I can buy a chainsaw for a small investment and chop 20 trees in an hour. Good CEO's should not have to be sold on security. They should understand technology or empower somebody to understand it and implement it. This is business. You don't have to sell a CEO on the idea that you need an alarm system, or that you need a lock on their office door. It is their job to know the entire business process. That is what they get paid 6 maybe 7 digits for. If they don't understand it then there should be a CIO that does, and that person should be given the confidence to make decisions that will benefit the company. It is not my job to educate them about business and security. My thoughts -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:40 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: how to block port 135 without router or firewall I think I have lucked out here. I have a CEO who's one number concern is security. He wants firewalls, access-list in routers, not storing complete credit card numbers, and things like that. We have a company coming in and doing a two-weeks check for security on our network next month. Cost a little bit, but he feels the money is worth it. He does not want what happened to Playboy to happen to us. But, I do know lots of companies shine on things like firewalls and other secure methods for the networks / servers. They do not see the reason to spend the money because they probably can not "see it" in action. At 10:37 AM 12/7/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Probably budget. Makes me sick when companies rely entirely on there >electronic data, don't realize and when IT tries to propose a solution to >protect them from disaster, they blow it off like it is no big deal. Can't >budget for that. Meanwhile IT is spending weekends cleaning up a mess that >could have been avoided by a measly 20 Grand. We fix the problem that could >have cost the company millions of dollars but get absolutely no recognition >for it. We don't fix the problem we are on the unemployment line because of >some shmuckola CEO that refuses to believe that it was his decision of not >implementing security that caused the company to lose vital data. >When is the business world going to realize that IT is as important as >accounts receivables? It gets really annoying that we IT professionals play >major roles in company day to day operations and get profiled as quiet, >secluded, seat warmers that do nothing but stare at monitors all day. When >in fact we are the fire fighters of the business world. > >Sorry just needed to vent a little. Corporate ignorance is extremely >pathetic. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Flanagan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:57 AM >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: how to block port 135 without router or firewall > >I find it hard to understand why you wouldn't want a firewall. > > >+__________________________________________+ >"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. >We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson > > >Kevin M. Flanagan >C/S Planning Engineer III >IT Systems Implementation >Branch Banking & Trust >3261 Atlantic Ave Suite 116 >Raleigh, NC 27604 >919-716-6209 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hank Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:46 AM > > To: NT 2000 Discussions > > Subject: Re: how to block port 135 without router or firewall > > > > > > 1. What OS -... > > it is w2k box. I have checked ip filter but it is for all > > nics. I am looking for certain ip or nic in the box > > > > 2. The NSA publishes a ..... > > thank you for the info > > > > 3. 135= RP....... > > I already take care of them > > > > 4. Look into Tiny Firewal... > > is it possible do it with w2k WITHOUT firewall box? > > > > > > 5. You may have better luck starting your search from >http://www.microsoft.com/security. > >7. There are cheap Firewall/Router products for Home use ($150-$400 US). I >may just clean up my unused pentum box and install linux to do the job. My >point is > >"Is it possible do it within w2k WITHOUT firewall box?" > >Cannot believe w2k have no ability to disable and block certain port by >itself... > > >Thanks > >Hank Lee > > > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
