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

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Message-ID: <184119.7715.qm@web30203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shaqe Wan <sha8e@...oo.com>
To: Digital X <digitalx00@...il.com>, Tracy Reed <treed@...raviolet.org>,
	Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

Yep, your right. The auditors nowadays even ask for an AV on a *n?x OS (what a shame) !!!

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From: Digital X <digitalx00@...il.com>
To: Tracy Reed <treed@...raviolet.org>; Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Sent: Mon, April 26, 2010 3:48:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

> PCI only requires antivirus for systems commonly affected by
> viruses. This means Windows. PCI security council has said that UN*X
> OSs etc. are not required to have antivirus.
> 
> -- 
> Tracy Reed
> http://tracyreed.org

Just an FYI...if your nix devices are in scope, my last audit (4 weeks ago)
directed me to install A/V plus a rootkit finder on linux devices in scope.
Whitelisting is an alternative, but seems more a headache then A/V.  Hope
this helps someone somewhere.

James

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