To Microsoft, security is about features. A builtin "firewall", VPN, encryption of this or that, trusted something or other. Applets and wizards.
I regularly clean the keyboards of computers that come to me for various fixes. I started doing it because some keyboards are so foul that I don't want to touch them without some kind of powerful cleaning agent nearby.
Wall Street increasingly runs on Linux. Maybe the irony of Microsoft selling antivirus software will drive that trend to continue. What's that? You don't see the irony in Microsoft selling antivirus software?
When Al Gore, Jr. got to Congress in 1976, the Internet was already experiencing exponential growth. People were discovering the benefits of connecting computers together, much the way their forebears discovered that yes, they could find a use for a telephone in their home after all.
The time to deal with the PHB and the security consultant is before the report comes. Define a level of security your company finds acceptable.
It doesn't take much to quickly set the right tone for a security audit. Even the Pointiest of HBs can understand the basic rules:
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
