Comments on: Security gets mainstream attention at RSA

Security is becoming standard and there's the smell of blood in the air as the industry is increasingly dominated by big-name companies.

[darix2005]

no

i don't think so

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[Michael Grogan]

Never trust the big guys

Especially when it comes to security, the major players always prove to be clueless. M$ has never been able to provide anything approaching secure systems and I doubt they ever will.

The big security vendors like McAfee and Symantec were good until they got too big and now they all suck a root. The only security apps that really work without themselves being a form of malware come from the small providers like Avast and AVG.

We'll never have decent IT security until people get over the brand name fixation syndrome.

[Fil0403]

Never follow the path of ignorance

By reading your ignorant comments that "M$ has never been able to provide anything approaching secure systems and I doubt they ever will", one can easily see you know nothing about Windows Live OneCare or Windows Defender, both of which are praised in most unbised reviews (hard to find when we're talking about a Microsoft product, but they still exist). And I'd advise you to learn a little about IT and not confuse Symantec with Norton, because the big security vender that Symantec is is as good as it ever was or even better and it continues to be the security vendor most people and businesses around the world trust (of course we know for you people the logic works the other way around and the better ones are always the ones who sell less). It would be nice too if you'd think before saying such ridiculous things as "The only security apps that really work without themselves being a form of malware come from the small providers like Avast and AVG", as I use Symantec Corporate 10 and I can assure you it is no form of malware and it is more effective than Avast or AVG (when will you people learn that, in this world, you get what you pay for?).
We'll never get decent mainstream security until people get over the Microsoft/Symantec bias/bashing syndrome, that is the truth.

[chash360]

No security anytime soon.

There won't be any security anytime soon. Just as the article said, security has always been an after thought. The original Internet being a network for the DOD, was secured by putting security first, not last. Those security precautions were ignored, when M$ began to mess with the HTML standard, and incorperated the network stacks as an inseparable part of the OS. No there won't be security anytime soon, didn't you hear, there's money to be made off insecurity, why would they destroy their own market?

[Fil0403]

No seriousness anytime soon either.

If you think there would be such thing as "security" if Microsoft wouldn't have changed the HTML standard (whether you consider it was a mess or not) you are very naive.
And it seems no one had anything better to offer, otherwise 90%+ of the world wouldn't be using Windows now, so maybe you shouldn't be accusing
Microsoft of changing HTML but other companies of not countering Microsoft.
Incorporating the network stack as an inseparable part of the OS was, sooner or later, an inevitable thing to do and in no way can be considered an insecure measure just by itself. Some things were done wrong, yes, but it ends there, and many of those things are now being corrected (Vista is a good example of that, if you have any knowledge about the changes in the network stack).

[harsh24x7]

Security?

If you are going to talk security at the RSA conference you should make sure to include ALL the major security players. You forgot the largest security player! - Symantec