Re: [Fed-Talk] Purchase Justification
Re: [Fed-Talk] Purchase Justification
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Purchase Justification
- From: Brian Raymond <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 00:20:01 -0400
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Purchase Justification
Nice one :)
I'm wondering see if the frequency of viruses/trojans, etc. pick up in the
next few months. I've always agreed with the concept of least privilege and
appreciated the design of the *NIX OS however I imagine a good portion of
the users out there are like me, most of the "valuable" stuff is in their
home directory. The design of the OS may protect the machine itself but when
your home directory is dropped I would call a virus/trojan quite a success.
I'm not saying it is going to happen but if I was evaluating attack vectors
and shooting for the most impact that is what I would target.
- Brian
On 5/5/06 2:21 PM, "Basil A Decina" <email@hidden> wrote:
> So a bio-defense guy can't use "not susceptible to viruses" as a
> justification ?
>
> (Sorry, it was too good an opening to pass up :-)
>
> At 11:55 AM -0400 5/3/06, Michael Chute wrote:
>> Yeah I know...He is basically in charge of giving out money for biological
>> warfare defense type stuff. I was just hoping that people would have a ready
>> made list that they use and then I could send the ideas to him for him to
>> adjust for his needs. The trick with the CAC/PKI is that it works fine on
>> winblows.
>> --
>> Michael D. Chute
>> BSL-3 Lab Manager
>> Naval Medical Research Center
>> Biological Defense Research Directorate
>>
>>> From: "Timothy J. Miller" <email@hidden>
>>> Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 11:52:54 -0400
>>> To: Michael Chute <email@hidden>
>>> Cc: <email@hidden>
>>> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Purchase Justification
>>>
>>> Michael Chute wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a friend at DTRA who wants to get a macbook. DTRA is ok
>> with getting
>>>> him one, but he needs justification to do this. He has already mentioned
>>>> the security and no viruses, and they said they need a "mac will
>> only run X"
>>>> type of justification. Does anybody have a list that they use to justify
>>>> the purchase of a mac? Thanks.
>>>
>>> I seem to be the only person in the USAF supporting CAC and PKI on OS X,
>>> so that was my justification. :)
>>>
>>> The point is it kinda depends on what he does. It's impossible to write
>>> justifications without knowing the job, work habits, requirements, all
>>> that stuff.
>>>
>>> -- Tim
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