Re: Compliance Is Wasted Money, Study Finds

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Tracy Reed to me:

> > Anyone authoritatively stating that antivirus software is a necessary 
> > component of a "reasonably secure" system is a fool.
>
> No, they just think all the world is Windows.

My comments were, and still are, OS agnostic.

It matters not what the OS -- anyone authoritatively stating that 
antivirus software is a necessary component of a "reasonably secure" 
system is a fool.

Ditto my second comment...

> > So _if_, as you and another recent poster strongly imply, the PCI 
> > standards include a specific _requirement_ for antivirus software, then 
> > the standards themselves are total nonsense...
>
> PCI only requires antivirus for systems commonly affected by
> viruses.  ...

Then, as I said, the PCI requirements are total nonsense...

> ...  This means Windows. PCI security council has said that UN*X
> OSs etc. are not required to have antivirus.

So what system and application integrity requirements do they require 
for those OSes (presumably "instead of antivirus")?

Your response strengthens my belief that PCI is dangerous because it 
enshrines small-minded ignorance as "best practice" (or, at least, as 
"minimally acceptable practice") without recognizing the possibility 
that there may be better options that have not been so, ummm "over 
sold" as to become perceived as necessary.



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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