“does your organization have antivirus or anti malware protection on all desktops?”
Talk about suggestive question phrasing. Where better organisational security could often be accomplished by assuming every device attached to the network is a potential threat, and focusing on the network security, shielding devices against each other with only whitelisted protocols, plus locking down all devices that are configured by corporate IT.
Practical IT security in most orgs these days is “configure a big firewall with default settings from corporate provider, assuming everything is safe inside.” then they get one compromised device (USB stick, cell phone transfer, exploit, whatever) and the whole ass network is fucked. and they have a “oh well, we did everything we can” excuse. fucking BS.
Complicate requirement are kind of out of date. They keep adding requirements to them but then don’t often take them away. So if a requiment made sense 20 years ago it’s still there even though there are better strategies to protect your environment.
You could skip a requiment if you can establish a compensatinh control and show that the threat the requirements is intended to address is addressed. For example skipping antivirus by reimagining the devices every morning, this is an absurd example but would work.
Talk about suggestive question phrasing. Where better organisational security could often be accomplished by assuming every device attached to the network is a potential threat, and focusing on the network security, shielding devices against each other with only whitelisted protocols, plus locking down all devices that are configured by corporate IT.
Practical IT security in most orgs these days is “configure a big firewall with default settings from corporate provider, assuming everything is safe inside.” then they get one compromised device (USB stick, cell phone transfer, exploit, whatever) and the whole ass network is fucked. and they have a “oh well, we did everything we can” excuse. fucking BS.
Complicate requirement are kind of out of date. They keep adding requirements to them but then don’t often take them away. So if a requiment made sense 20 years ago it’s still there even though there are better strategies to protect your environment.
You could skip a requiment if you can establish a compensatinh control and show that the threat the requirements is intended to address is addressed. For example skipping antivirus by reimagining the devices every morning, this is an absurd example but would work.