Re: [Sheflug] Security modelling - not quite Linux

[Geoff Schrecker <geoff.schrecker@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 March 2011 11:24, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David
>
>> I'm facing redundancy on the grounds that my current role is to be
>> subsumed into a new role which is 'significantly different' to my
>> current one.
>
> I'm sorry to hear about this.  I've been through this a few times
> myself.  Not very pleasant.  Hope you can find a way out of it.
>

Indeed, very sorry to hear

>> At the moment I develop and maintain external websites
>> and content management systems on LAMP for a school and they want
>> someone to do this plus internal web sites (on .NET). From fairly
>> harmless data protection (sports results, news item etc) it'd now
>> include online access for parents to school reports, billing and
>> the like, and the grounds on which they say the new role is
>> significantly different is that the security modelling is
>> significantly different. Clearly the data is more sensitive, but
>> does anyone have any advice about how much more complex the
>> security considerations are? Is it something that you can do a
>> course on and get up to speed, read a book and practice about, or
>> does it sound like they have a valid point?
>

I have no expert knowledge on this, but would mistrust the opinion of
someone who views moving off a Linux platform to a Microsoft one as a
means of improving security.

Good luck.

Geoff
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