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Posted By: Sean In Response To: From One Computer Security Professional To Another (Tom Brownsword)
Friday, 28 July 2006, at 11:59 a.m.
Hi Tom,
Yep, that's 100% true on all accounts.
What you do is up to you and you may opt not to take a pistol into snake territory.
The key point here is that IF you opt to follow that list... you will truly run clean.
Sean
> Hi Sean,
> While your suggestions are valid, do keep in mind that one of the three
> "legs" of the C-I-A triad is Availability (the others are
> Confidentiality and Integrity).
> So while your suggestions will help prevent problems, it may also cripple
> your ability to get any work done. And if your computer is not Available
> to you to do the work you want it to do, then it is not secure.
> Availability goes beyond having your computer "available". It
> also means that you are able to use it to do the work that you want to do.
> So if you want to engage in risky activity or if you want to install a BHO
> (browser helper object) or a toolbar to make work easier, then you should
> do so by all means -- but only if you understand the risks involved and
> are willing to live with them.
> If you want to go to those extremes, of course you can, and if you can
> find work-arounds for some of those convenient functions (like the Google
> toolbar), that's great, too. But for a lot of people that visit this
> board, Internet Marketing is their "thing" -- and they may not
> be acceptable. For example, I can easily go to Alexa to check on site
> rank, but I've decided to install the Alexa toolbar and live with the
> residual risk. And I'm not sure if an alternative for the Page Rank
> function of the Google toolbar even exists. I've therefore decided to
> install it, too. And while this is an extreme step that I would not
> recommend that anyone else ever try, I don't run real-time anti-virus
> scanning on my computers because it hinders some of the research that I
> perform. Again, I fully understand and accept the risks involved (I'm also
> willing to completely wipe my computer hard drive and reload everything
> and have an elaborate backup plan... like I said, I do not recommend that
> anyone else ever try this. Ever).
> What it comes down to in the end is that you have to identify the risks
> involved with any computing or business activity, find ways to reduce or
> eliminate those risks (mitigation), and then decide if the risk mitigation
> price is worth the gain. And your suggestions are definitely great areas
> to consider as you form your plan.
> Thanks for listening,
> Tom
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