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Tuesday, November 25, 2003Wanted: reasoned thought
 Opinion Having spent two days last week mixing it at the NEFF with various members of the police force and various fraud specialists form a wide variety of industries and public sector bodies including the National Audit Office and security specialists from the several of the high street banks. I'm even more paranoid than I was before, if that were possible.I was especially impressed with the afternoon's discussion on the second day headed by Colin Wittaker of APACS on e-commerce fraud. I was, however, equally very depressed with the technical session on corporate security where at least one participant told the amazed audience his answer to the problem of email viruses was to only allow one PC, not connected to the corporate LAN, to be attached to the Internet. There seems to be plenty of evidence that real criminals are getting more organised and the risks are increasing every day for all of us, as individuals and companies alike. Yet the willingness of otherwise well educated decision makers to enter into meaningful discussions regarding investment in multi-level security measures is woefully lacking, staggeringly so in my opinion. Why is this ? There are probably many facets to the answer to that question, but as technologists we have a responsibility to adjust our responses and participate in the bigger debate as grown ups and not continually snipe at the most obvious without thinking first. Like adolescent school kids with half formed ideas or brainwashed middle class left wing pinkos with shallow reasoning and single issue politics, 7/10th of our industry seems to think nirvana can be obtained if we just dumped Windows and Bill into the Pacific. Thank god for people like Tim Mullen a reasoned analyst if ever there was one. Related Links Busting the Worm Writers Microsoft's hacker bounty is wasted money Proposed: a Bounty for Bugs The Flaw of Security Through Diversification by Mark Burnett The 7 Top Management Errors that Lead to Computer Security Vulnerabilities posted by Robert Campbell 8:44 PM
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