Here's a good interview with eWeek staff and a few IS directors discussing anticipating and preventing common security vulnerabilities. "During a roundtable discussion with eWeek editors, IT managers said they asked for the tight integration and product synergy that Microsoft Corp. offers. What they didn't ask for were the security vulnerabilities inherent in this model."
eWeek Corporate Partners Steve Curcuru, resident wizard at Boston-based Mugar Enterprises Inc.; Sam Inks, director of IS at Atlantic Research Corp., in Gainesville, Va.; and Dave Thompson, CIO of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in Arlington, Va., take not only Microsoft but also the IT community to task for not anticipating and preventing these vulnerabilities. During a conference call with eWeek Technology Editor Peter Coffee, Executive Managing Editor/eBiz Strategies Jeff Moad and Executive Editor/eWeek Labs Deb Donston, the Corporate Partners offered recommendations for turning things around.