Re: About Operating Systems security

From: Chris Berry (compjma_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/03

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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:09:28 -0700

    >From: "yannick'san" <yannicksan@free.fr>
    >Oups! sorry if it was not clear.
    >I'm not asking you for any application recommandation nor any OS
    >recommandation. In fact my question should be ennonced like that : how do
    >you do when you want to introduce a new OS in your companie ?
    >Some mails earlier, I've been told to calculate the TCB (Trusted Computing
    >Base) of the whole system and since that, I concentrate my efforts on it.

    I'd say the only real objective way to decide is cost based. Look at the
    total cost of ownership/transition and if it's cheaper then you should
    probably switch. As much as people bash Microsoft (myself included),
    security isn't really about what product you use, but how you use it.

    Chris Berry
    compjma@hotmail.com
    Systems Administrator
    JM Associates

    "All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe and
    a quick recompile."

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