the rise of targeted attacks has poked big holes in a lot of companies' intrusion-detection strategies. |
The spreading of the worm has slowed down slightly, but the real cost is going back and cleaning computers. |
They're going to lose market share, that's a given. But I bet they'll still be the market-share leader. They have that brand name, and so far have made acquisitions and aggressive schedules to stay ahead. But they have to execute. |
Vendors have not always been in synch about what is the best way to offer security functions to handheld device users. |
Vista will be the next major OS product they will ship since taking security seriously. Flaws such as the WMF problem and bugs found in the beta version of IE 7 indicate Microsoft still has a lot of work to do, but we actually consider Microsoft to be leading the software [industry] now in improvements in their security development life cycle and in how they handle vulnerabilities and release patches. |
Wall Street-type companies have done this sort of interoperability but typically under controlled conditions, ... What may look easy to Dean Witter may not look so easy to others, especially smaller companies. |
Wall Street-type companies have done this sort of interoperability but typically under controlled conditions. What may look easy to Dean Witter may not look so easy to others, especially smaller companies. |
We don't want good-guy software to allow bad-guy software to take advantage of it. This was just bad software design by Symantec, as opposed to them trying to take advantage of the OS. |
We knew it was going to be at least 20 percent lower than competitors' prices. We didn't think they would dump it at a super-duper low price. |
We're advising against this third-party patch. |