Re: Managed Firewall Service - Opinions

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 01:45:26PM -0400, Paul Robertson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Melson, Paul wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:59:31 -0400
> > From: "Melson, Paul" <PMelson () sequoianet com>
> > To: "Jeffery.Gieser () minnesotamutual com@AICNOTES"
> >     <IMCEANOTES-Jeffery+2EGieser+40minnesotamutual+2Ecom+40AICNOTES@sequoianet
> >     .com>, firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
>
> (strange trailing TLD there... )

That's Lotus Gnotes droppings.  Someone doesn't know how to filter
properly.  (I certainly don't.)

> > To be fair, any security services company with a half-way decent legal
> > department will require some level of disclaimer like this in their SLA,
> > or any contract for that matter.  You're asking too much if you want to
> > pay a vendor $15K-$20K/yr and expect them to pay 10x to 100x that back
> > if there's a security incident.  I can't think of any industry where a
>
> The insurance industry is one that comes to mind, as well as potentially 
> the healthcare industry by way of the insurance industry.
>
> In most cases though, the risks aren't anywhere near as common for the 
> pool of insured as they are for any of us who rely on programmers and 
> programming discipline.

In fact, I'm surprised you didn't point to the familiar example of
software license disclaimers.  "This software is not guaranteed to be
suitable for running on your computer, doing anything useful in this
lifetime, or lining a bird cage."  At least that's better than
"... guaranteed not to be ...".

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () center osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
OSIS Center Systems Support                                     EMT-B
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