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I once worked on a computer for the US Government that felt slow. I counted nine (9) directly competitive and redundant endpoint protection products on it. Not
by zbentley 7mo ago
I once worked on a computer for the US Government that felt slow. I counted nine (9) directly competitive and redundant endpoint protection products on it.
Not nine different/only somewhat overlapping pieces of software from companies that were competitors. Nine equivalent products. I guess defender made ten.
- ASalazarMX 7mo agoTen protection layers! This is the reverse of the seven proxies meme.
- mounram 7mo agoCan you elaborate?
- zbentley 7mo agoHow? I’m not going to name agencies or security products if that’s what you mean. It was a US government owned/issued computer. It had 9 fully overlapping/redundant endpoint security products running. Opening websites took ages. Using specialized apps like IDEs was unlikely to fully or consistently work. As I understand it, this situation is not unusual in government/heavily regulated workstation environments elsewhere.
- MBCook 7mo agoIn college I remember one room had some kind of all-in-one PCs built into the desks. It would have been useful. Except they were unusably slow. Literally. Log in when class starts, you may get control after 10+ minutes. Opening a web browser was a mistake you may not live to regret. The network there was not fast. The various security stuff slowed every computer down a lot. I suspect they were already older and maybe underspec. Probably had 4200 RPM disks or something. But the combination meant they were 100% worthless.