Jim Provan

Organizations spend a lot of money on equipment, on personnel to manage the equipment and on infrastructure to insure that the tools to do a job are available and can be run by their employees error-free. When a virus, worm, spyware, malware or plain rat modifies a computer's standard mechanics, a normal person is often at a loss as to how to fix it. Wouldn't it be more prudent for the technical people to be engineering new defenses, optimizing the existing system or answering questions about how to use software tools, instead of repeatedly fixing a wreck of a computer because it was jimmied by a worm or the weekend geek? This is what employers face. In the Microsoft world, which is where most corporate environments spend their money, it can be an expensive proposition. The tools to defend a standard desktop can be pricey. It then becomes a vicious cycle, because the ... (more)