Fantastic newsletter Ms. Mittens!! I agree with your editorial 100%! If companies would spend more time considering the implications of not properly maintaining service levels for their systems I feel there would be fewer systems compromised by some of the latest viri/worms.

After working for a big company for many years and being involved with maintaining the network at a branch office I know how it goes. Upper management only thinks about the bottom line and the limited "budget" dollars for personnel not what affects this could have on a companies operations. I personally saw the affects of the Blaster worm on our network and I laughed my @## off due to the fact that our MIS department said we could not "ever" be affected by any such viri or worm. I spent five hours patching fifty workstations and running a cleaner app just to make sure that the systems were okay. It was ridiculous!

Anyways once again great newsletter and I can't wait for the 10th edition!!!


ccKid