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| Subject: | RE: Should webservers, eg. IIS 6 have anti--virus installed on th em? |
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| Date: | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:49:09 -0700 (PDT) |
I have a completely different view. I think that AV, while not the silver bullet, is a solid line of defence.
Perhaps, but from what? It won't protect the box from being broken into, and the argument that it will protect you from things we don't know about yet just doesn't hold.
The more lines of defence you have, the more proactively you have secured your environment.
And the more things you have to manage, and the more things you have to look at when troubleshooting an issue...and yet another set of logs that you have to review.
In a perfect world everything would be nicely secured, things like Windows and TCP/IP would have been designed for security and we would all be proactive not reactive.
But you can be proactive with Windows...there are a great number of things you can do to secure a Windows system proactively. The problem is that few of them are done. Harlan ------------------------------------------ Harlan Carvey, CISSP "Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery" http://www.windows-ir.com http://windowsir.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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