Microsoft Apologist Apologizes for Microsoft

hillbilly1980 writes "Internet Week has published a counter article in response to the number of anti-monoculture security papers recently published. Unfortunately the author starts out by writing off the other papers as simply anti-Microsoft, unfortunate because his paper never gets past being more then just pro-Microsoft. One of his suggestions to secure your enterprise... turn off port 80." Probably the best thing to do to prevent disinformation from entering your company is to block articles by Rob Enderle. Update: 10/11 00:54 GMT by M : Note for the record that the original version of the article referred to blocking port 80; the article has now been edited to refer to port 135.

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Michael is a hippie.

[wfrp01]

Probably the best thing to do to prevent disinformation from entering your company is to block articles by Rob Enderle.

It's not just Rob Enderle, you damn left wing-nut communist pro-choice feminazi Michael! It the Enderle Group !!! The whole damn bunch of them!! Are you trying to say that they're all nuts!? That's just nuts.

Server with no ports open is useless

[Pan T. Hose]

I meant to turn off all ports, not to turn off the bloody systems. Sheesh.

If I am going to turn all of the ports on our servers off, then I can just shut the whole damn network down as well. Both of those "solutions" are technically equivalent, the only difference being the obvious savings on electricity bill.

If they're systems in a lab, you're probably going to have to keep some ports on.

Indeed...

But for 99.99% of Windows users there is not need to. They're client machines, not servers.

I don't allow Windows on my network. Do you think I'm stupid? I am not going to trust in security through obscurity done by the most ignorant people in the industry. This is an important network and I am not going to basically ask for trouble.