Does not have to be Acrobat for everyone, but for the 40 users I can tell you they use many of the features of marking up, stamping, etc. Comments is only a small part of how they use Acrobat so at least for them I'd say yes needs to be.
It's not trivial to determine out of the 250 users who really needs it and who doesn't - it will require communicating with each one (likely through an e-mail with several Q's on "do you do this this or this, or just this") and going through the answers. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: So...I need to pitch the Adobe upgrade Does it have to be Adobe Acrobat? It's a huge amount of money and I suspect 90% of your users use 10% of its functionality. Do you need something that Adobe does or would you consider an alternative? From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: 04 November 2011 17:35 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: So...I need to pitch the Adobe upgrade We have at least 40 users who actually need the full version of Adobe Acrobat and potentially over 200. What I need to do is justify the cost to management and, being security related, means I have to come up with some kind of risk analysis to justify it. Can y'all help me with this? I am not great at thinking about the kinds of Q's management would ask. "Adobe has stopped support for version 8 of Adobe Acrobat (Reader, Standard, and Professional) this means they no longer are releasing security updates for this version. Currently we show an installed base of 250 systems which means we have this many systems that will become increasingly vulnerable. What are they vulnerable to? The malware a PDF can carry almost any kind of malware, virus, spyware, etc and is not limited to a "can only mess with other PDF's" kind of vulnerability. PDF's are a *very* common document exchange format, and a PDF file can deliver malware just as easily as visiting a website. In fact, opening a PDF from the Internet is the most likely form of compromise so the odds of compromise go up with each opening of a PDF file. It's worthy to note many PDF vulnerabilities are operating system agnostic - Mac and Windows machines are equally vulnerable. Our options are to leave the systems as-is and accept the risk of compromised systems, or to upgrade to the currently supported version of Adobe. In my opinion the potential security risk greatly exceeds the cost of upgrading the necessary systems to Acrobat X Standard which is fully supported with security updates until Nov 15, 2015" 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 ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ 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
