Comments on: Doors opening for outsourced security

Companies that offer outsourced enterprise security are overcoming preconceptions and winning over some skeptics.

[MrBoomshadow]

Oh, THIS'LL work...

We now have the potential to get screwed twice: once out of jobs, and then again by underpaid employees.

I'm not saying that people here haven't committed major data and identity theft; far from it--recent headlines call attention to major inside jobs at Wachovia and Bank of America.

But here, there's no extradition to worry about, and one less layer of corporate insulation over the suspects.

We need global labor standards right now. It will cause minor upheaval in the form of large corporations passing their liabilities on to us, but the market will correct for that. It always has, and it always will.

Definately a good idea

Security audit is again something like product testing; no matter how great a programmer is, he cannot find few "obvious" bugs that can easily be found by a QA team.
I think for small company that cannot hire a complete security department, it make lots of sense to use security scanner software/service like the one provided by Qualsys.
I also believe CIO should take it easy, as physical security has traditionally been outsourced, I am sure it also make sense to outsource electronic security.

Simplest solution

Amazing the sheeple that are most executives today. The answer to all the hassle of patching is easy - don't do Windows. Now how hard was that? So many alternative and many FREE, solutions out there. Guess it is too hard to give up that M$ gravy train.