The first question is what your parent does with the computer.
Protection should be in line with what it is protecting.
If the computer is being used for occasional surfing, a few games, etc. Then the VISTA firewall is sufficient.
If banking/commerce takes place on it, the firewall might be sufficient when backed up by other controls (strong anti-virus/patch management)
The second question, how much time are you planning to spend supporting it? The more level of security, the higher the level of oversite required.
Tinfoil is not ideal for tempest;
Seriously, the best thing you can do is teach the user how to be safe on the internet, as it is the warm, fleshy, squirty thing that exists between the chair
and the keyboard that is responsible for most security issues. If you want to spend time protecting your mother's.... assets, your time is best spent on
training her in how to safely use a computer.
Shayne
Protection should be in line with what it is protecting.
If the computer is being used for occasional surfing, a few games, etc. Then the VISTA firewall is sufficient.
If banking/commerce takes place on it, the firewall might be sufficient when backed up by other controls (strong anti-virus/patch management)
The second question, how much time are you planning to spend supporting it? The more level of security, the higher the level of oversite required.
Tinfoil is not ideal for tempest;
Seriously, the best thing you can do is teach the user how to be safe on the internet, as it is the warm, fleshy, squirty thing that exists between the chair
and the keyboard that is responsible for most security issues. If you want to spend time protecting your mother's.... assets, your time is best spent on
training her in how to safely use a computer.
Shayne