Re: Minimum security standards

At 16:59 -0700 2004-06-24, Johnathon P Kogelman wrote:
>As for the argument floating around about exclude whole blocks of
>Operating Systems as they don't have vulnerabilities ...

   For clarification, that argument is a straw man; it's never been
made in this discussion.

   My request was that Mac OS 9 not be automatically relegated to the
status of an "older, unsupported OS", vis a vis the campus minimum
security standards, until its security-related characteristics are
examined.

> Great these type of OS are not vulnerably, but on the other hand
>you can't get new Anti-Virus engines (or won't be able to in the
>next 6 - 9 months) and there are not software Firewalls for these
>older OS. I guess it comes down to Letter of the policy vs the
>Spirit of the policy...

   Just as an FYI, virus definitions updates from anti-virus software
vendors continue to be made available for Mac OS 9. In addition,
there are a number of host-based firewall software choices available
for that OS:

   http://seaotter.berkeley.edu/cab/mac-firewalls/#products-macos-classic

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Fri Jun 25 12:10:20 2004