include much needed antivirus products in FC2

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jan 5 23:12:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:10, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lun 05/01/2004 à 23:54, seth vidal a écrit :
> > > And defense in depth is a bad thing? 
> > 
> > When the cost is high defense in depth is just duplication of effort.
> > If you're hosts are nicely firewalled is there a real point to site-wide
> > firewalling?
> 
> Because local firewalls are taken down sometimes. Which opens exploit
> windows. Extreme redundancy is bad and wasteful. Minimal redundancy OTOH
> is just another way to recognise s* happens, so you're better of
> planning for it.
> 

As I said in my initial claim - if you have control over the clients,
then that's not a problem, really.

You can't always have belts and suspenders.

-sv






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