linux-kernel - Re: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)

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Message-ID: <5822.1262050782@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:39:42 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	daw-news@...erner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:42:55 GMT, David Wagner said:

> Sure. :-)  One big catch-phrase that covers a lot of this ground is
> 'compliance'.  Recently there seems to be considerable discussion
> among security professionals about the tension between 'compliance' and
> 'security', and whether increased attention to 'compliance' benefits
> 'security' or is in the end a distraction.

There's what I can administer effectively, there's what the most junior admin
in my shop can administer effectively, what the DBA's will accept, and what
our auditors insist on.  Every once in a while, all four actually line up,
but then my alarm clock goes off and it's another Monday in the office :)

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