David, from what direction are your concerns coming from? Are you concerned how to patch the macs? Are you concerned about antivirus? Are you concerned about controlling what the Macs are allowed to do?
I'm just trying to understand, and perhaps help. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:01:20 -0700 Subject: RE: Macs and vunerabilities > Well, we're getting a Mac invasion here and there is zero apparent concern > for managing these things or worrying about vulnerabilities. To get to AD > resources they're standing up Win7 VM's but doing as much work as possible > on the native MacOS. > > They can get to the Internet, file shares, printers, e-mail, etc on native > Mac but I just have alarms going off in my head "unmanaged machines with no > idea what intellectual property is on them". > > Dave > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:49 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Macs and vunerabilities > > I remember the big "mac virus" recently was socially engineered - but that's > definitely the mac's biggest vulnerability. Given that mac users generally > believe they are invulnerable, its an arguably bigger vector than the same > one on a Windows system. > > Sent from my POS BlackBerry wireless device, which may wipe itself at any > moment > > ________________________________ > From: David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:45:39 +0000 > To: NT System Admin > Issues<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Macs and vunerabilities > > Does anyone have a link to an article or two that shows vulnerabilities that > have actually been exploited? Preferably not a random blog post... > David Lum > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
