Server software that is very, very secure is possible. " I have never heard of "Beta" business class Server software licensing...
In mainstream corporations none of this is going to happen until security issues impact the bottom line. And then it will be corps typical approach, of addressing specific instances. The military too, Adobe and Windows are used all over the place.
Mainstream corporations..What corporation does not use computer's , phones, or networks Candy Land?
First off, demand that every software vendor provide a list of files that their product installs, where those files are installed by default and different checksums/hashes/etc for them.
It should be possible to boot a machine with a live CD (or PXE) and inventory every single file on that machine and identify the origin of each of them.
At least you'd know whether a machine was cracked or not.
Right now, with existing anti-virus, all you can say is that a machine does not have anything that matches the signatures that you have right now.
My days would be much simpler if all dev's turned out software that is hospital grade. I am not real sure about the point Khasim is making, most software and driver's are digitally signed. True, zero-day attacks are more frequent these days however, I believe that is more related to streaming media that is harder for AV software to track because of torrents and proxies and embedded and gets de-ciferd "on the fly".
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