Re: Custom UCB Symantec Anti-virus? - the meaning of 'custom'?

Jay Bryon wrote:
> I might be biased, since I work just down the hall, but I have never
> observed any member of SNS behaving in anything other than a
> professional manner.
>
> I, in fact, note a decided lack of fascism in the air (and I lose sleep
> nightly over that issue in general).
>
> Having worked with them on several occasions, their objective is to keep
> campus functional for everybody on campus, that's plenty to keep them
> busy. And sensitivity to the campus need for academic freedom and open
> communication has always been there, as far as I can see.
>
> I've always found them to be extremely receptive to collaboration, which
> I highly recommend to any unit on campus.
>
> My, well, call it $0.04
>
> -Jay
>

I suppose I could be accused of being biased as well, belonging to IST,
though I'm at the other end of Shattuck.

My $0.01 (as a rule my comments are not worth as much as Jay's) is that
in addition to agreeing with Jay, there is another angle to consider.
The general tendency in audit requirements today seems to be towards a
security group separate from the administrator group to receive and
review security information.

This is increasingly a big deal in the database world, and so we're
actively looking for ways to get more of our security and audit logs to
SNS. Perhaps it is different in the desktop world. But for us, SNS is
and will be a great help, since we couldn't fund our own independent
group to provide this function. (And even if we could fund it, why
would we want to?)

Paul

 
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Received on Thu Dec 13 2007 - 10:58:06 PST