"Endpoint protection" sounds to me like a euphemism for CYA.  (Now
whether that's a literal or figurative "A", well, I suppose that's
contextual...)

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Phillip Partipilo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The US DoD & company began pushing the term "Information Assurance"
>> (IA) for this reason.  People hear "security" and think
>> "pain-in-the-ass stuff that prevents real work from getting done".
>> People hear "assurance" and think "I don't really know what that
>> means, but it sounds like I should have it".
>
> Could a similar phenomenon explain the translation of "Symantec antivirus"
> to "endpoint protection"?
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> Phillip Partipilo
> Parametric Solutions Inc.
> Jupiter, Florida
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