[65248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco, Anti-virus Vendors Team on Network Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Nov 18 15:23:16 2003
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:08:45 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:22:33 -0500
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:08:45 EST, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> said:
> Without the secret handshake Mac OS, Linux, Solaris and other operating
> systems will not be able to connect to a Cisco Self-Defending Network
> which limits its usefullness for ISPs.
A *nix without a secret handshake is like a fish without a bicycle.
Yes, viruses *are* theoretically possible on these platforms, but let's
be honest here - even if you included all of the platforms, you'd only
intercept another 1% or so viruses, tops.
At worst, you have to run another network segment to connect all the
machines that are able to defend themselves without assistance.
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