full-disclosure - Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:07:14 +0200
From: Michel Messerschmidt <lists@...hel-messerschmidt.de>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 06:02:48AM -0700, Shaqe Wan wrote:
> I am not stating that PCI is good in no way, but I am saying that its a MUST for companies dealing with CC. And in a windows environment, an AV is important. 

Did you consider that an anti-virus may actually be the worst security 
solution for certain threats because it allows companies not to think 
about security while providing insufficient protection? 

What's your choice:
Company A installs an anti-virus and updates it regularly (BTW regularly 
includes once a year).
Company B has a recovery concept, incident response team, vulnerability
monitoring, patch management, NIDS, security training but no anti-virus.

> He probably thought that I am with the rules of PCI, or that I don't have any idea that the world is not just WINDOWS !!!

No, I don't think so.

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