Re: Email encryption and virus scanning

[Dave Piscitello <dave () corecom com>]

At 05:18 AM 5/21/2002 +0100, Antonomasia wrote:
> > While Lotus seems to have better security,

Remember the 3 Little Pigs. Outlook is the straw house,
Lotus is the house made of sticks. Neither weathers a
decent storm.

> Our mail admins have made such an embarrassing mess of everything they
> touch there's little chance of anyone taking them seriously and they're
> lucky to have jobs.   And they won't turn on the pop3 server because
> that would allow you to read mail on unix.  That would never do.

In organizations I've visited, the stated reason for blocking pop3
is to prevent employees from accessing personal (ISP) mail
accounts, ostensibly to minimize cyberslacking, eliminate bypass
of mail content inspection, etc. Some companies won't admit *nix
clients operate internally, or write policy prohibiting their use.



David M. Piscitello
Core Competence, Inc. &
The Internet Security Conference
3 Myrtle Bank Lane
Hilton Head, SC 29926
dave () corecom com
www.corecom.com
www.tisc2002.com
hhi.corecom.com/~yodave/


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