Ed Moyle Quotations

By doing all these things, ... the enterprise will know how to respond to a threat in ways that minimize downtime and keep digital assets secure, even in a world where threats are almost guaranteed.

As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.

It allows virus-checking software in an e-mail to filter on that extension and to search files coming in with that extension more carefully, or to exclude them altogether on a content filtering gateway while allowing the majority of the office docs to pass through without hindrance. My only concern is making a smooth transition to the new format.

Getting the threat of breach entirely to zero is effectively impossible, even in relatively small enterprises. And the closer we aim toward zero, the more expensive and time-consuming it becomes.

Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.

Since all ICANN decisions are subject to approval by the U.S. Department of Commerce, President Bush can ultimately decide whether or not to allow that change to proceed. No other country has that level of voice in the process.

By using data from their threat-tracking efforts, the CIO can demonstrate how I.T. investment impacted the bottom line in terms of cost savings.

This helps to explain why trying to prevent the possibility of security breaches entirely is a losing battle.

When you take into account the fact that a large enterprise might have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of machines, the job of securing those machines is very difficult and keeping them secure over time is even more difficult still.

Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'