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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:06 -0700
From: Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

Your comparison doesn't work.

It's not A versus B, it's A versus C, with C being "Company does
nothing because it can't afford a thorough security program."

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Michel Messerschmidt
<lists@...hel-messerschmidt.de> wrote:
> 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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