Author: Ted Roche
Posted: 2014-07-30 at 10:27:27
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Joe Yoder <joe@wheypower.com> wrote:
>
> My client has been getting warning messages that, since they are running
> XP, their access will be cut off soon as Microsoft has dropped support for
> XP. I contacted the vendors sales rep and explained that Microsoft is
> continuing support for Server 2003 until 2015 and that by that time my
> client will have migrated to Server 2008. She was satisfied that this will
> be satisfactory.
>
Windows XP is no longer supported NOW:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/xp/end-of-xp-support.aspx
Your client needs to update their workstations to a better operating
system. ALL operating systems are better than Windows XP.
Right now, they are in danger of a "Zero Day" attack that can compromise
their Windows XP machines, and once a foothold in their network is
established, potentially contaminate every machine on that network, and
every network that network connects to.
As for SSL, (https in the browser, sometimes a little padlock) all that
does is ensure that an encrypted connection exists between the two
endpoints of the client application (browser) and the destination (web
application). This simply ensures that anyone who can see that network
stream of data ("a man in the middle") cannot read the data. However, if
the browser endpoint is compromised, all the data going over that
connection could be read, monitored, stolen or altered.
Replace your Windows XP workstations with anything: iPads, X-Boxes,
iPhones, Android phones/tablets, Linux machines, even updated Windows
machines -- and the problem gets kicked down the road, until the next round
of updates.
Microsoft Server 2003 is also on its way out and ought to be replaced, too:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=windows+server+2003&Filter=FilterNO
Why not Server 2012? Then, you're only two years out of date. Or, again,
any other OS: OSX or Linux.
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
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