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The bottom line is that security has been set back nearly six years in the past 18 months. Six years ago, attackers targeted operating systems and the operating system vendors didn't do automated patching. In the intervening years, automated patching protected everyone from government to grandma. Now the attackers are targeting popular applications, and the vendors of those applications do not do automated patching.

In the past 12 to 15 months, attackers have made a massive shift to attack applications. Automated patching started making it harder to find new vulnerable systems, so they went after applications that users are just not patching.

We have made enormous progress over the past five years by forcing the vendors to deliver automated patching. Now the bad guys are saying: 'You did that, now we're going after the applications.' Now we have to start all over again.

A PC is a commodity but a value-addition has to be done to this commodity. To differentiate from the other vendors, we are trying to give customers certain features in our computers by which they would be able to save a lot of hassles. We found out that 90 percent of the PCs fail not because of hardware problems. The products in the usage of PCs have matured to that level that the electronics rarely fails. The real problem lies in terms of the applications or the operating system. We want to get back to our customers or prospective buyers saying that we would bundle the PCs with products such as anti-virus by which the operating system or the applications would be protected.

There is no doubt that, as Microsoft and other vendors continue to improve the security of their base operating systems, malicious code writers will 'move up the stack' and target applications.

Let's say the judge finds that Microsoft is a monopoly and says, OK, I'm going to get my Sword of Solomon out and then we'll have 'Microsoft Applications' and 'Microsoft Operating Systems,' ... The applications division would then pursue other operating systems than Windows to put its applications onto, and the operating systems division would pursue ways to be more competitive without having to tie it to the applications.

Martin Reynolds

The issue is whether it's cheaper to support two operating systems and have lower operating costs, or spend the money on migration. Most companies don't have an automated way to do an OS upgrade, so a full-scale migration would be the higher cost.

In the past, a process or a function could still be automated but it was almost impossible to integrate multiple functions, geographies, and systems. But now you can have applications up and running that I.T. managers historically have had to go through hell and high water to get to talk to one another.

Jonathan Eunice

[At the time the bidding was stopped, Automated Wagering International, the GTECH competitor for whom Larry Littman had worked before becoming the Texas Lottery's executive director, had on the table a competitive bid that reportedly would have saved Texas $92 million over five years plus provide a new computer system at no cost to the state. Charles Brooke, senior vice president for Automated Wagering International was shocked.] We were totally dismayed, ... They owe us a hell of a lot better explanation. They didn't even try to negotiate with us.

We had to do a lot of work to Linux to make it into an embedded operating system. Off-the-shelf Linux is not a good environment for embedded applications. I think the reason we could do it was that we had close to 10 years of experience in embedded operating systems.

Michael Kantrowitz

Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at Web and client-side applications. As the threat landscape continues to change, users need to be diligent in keeping systems up to date with security patches and security solutions.

Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters and toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at web and client-side applications. As the threat landscape continues to change, users need to be diligent in keeping systems up-to-date with security patches and security solutions.

Richard Batchelar

Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters and toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at web and client-side applications. As the threat landscape continues to change, users need to be diligent in keeping systems up-to-date with security patches and security solutions.

Richard Batchelar

Attackers are moving away from large, multipurpose attacks on network perimeters toward smaller, more targeted attacks directed at Web and client-side applications. As the threat landscape continues to change, users need to be diligent in keeping systems up to date with security patches and security solutions.

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