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Microsoft Security Whitepaper
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft last week published a document on its Web site that describes how the company manages security on its own 300,000 node corporate network. The document is basically a dry discussion of IT risk management strategy, with lots of references to 'asset classes' and 'stakeholders,' and about five, nearly identical 'cycle of life' type diagrams showing how one risk management strategy leads to the next and so on, in a never-ending process. However, the document does open a window on how the biggest, richest software company in the world does security: from the deployment of 65,000 smart cards (let's see, at $50 a piece, that comes to....?), to MS's admission that 'there is a medium to high probability that within the next year, a successful attack will occur that could compromise the High Value and/or Highest Value data class.' According to the document, that includes things such as source code or human resources data."
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Articles like this one always make me wonder... A couple of relatives of mine worked for IBM for many a year, mostly back before MS became what it is today... I've heard stories about the software (and even hardware) that never got outside the doors, but was developed and used internally. One can debate the merits of those decisions either way - but how much of Microsoft's code do you think never gets used outside of Redmond?
And, a minor point, but... if you're getting tens of thousands of smart cards, I sure hope you're not paying 50 bucks a piece for them.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
The following is my firewall configuration. I believe it is ingenius. It allows my friends to access my webserver and their shell on my box via ssh. I haven't been hax0red yet.
/etc/firewall.conf
$ cat
pass in quick all
pass out quick all
Sven, is that you?
they can sue ms for hacking tv, 60,000 card readers times $3500 is quite a bit of money!! -lol
Open source? More like openly racist!