richms:

 

 

 

Its when people do stupid things like allow unsupported operating systems to browse the net or have email or be on the same lan as computers with customer data etc that the IT staff have to tell them no.

 

everyone is ignoring the REAL WORLD security issue is the user , not if the OS or if its patched or not.
Thats why fully patched Win7/10 PC's can get infected while unpatched/NEVER patched XP's can go without ever having infections/malware

Sure , better to be fully up to date with Win patches, but lets not pretend lack of updates is the cause of most malware infections .
When XP was current, most XP PC's I saw werent even doing winupdates: didnt cause meltdowns .

Last year, known Win7 update issues saw many thousands of Win7 PC's stop updating for several months, wasnt that big an issue (most didnt even notice).
There are still many XP PC's out there in NZ businesses. They arnt the big security issue. Users opening bogus emails & clicking on links & attachments is.

IT make suggestions , they cant dictate to management/owners .
They can choose to walk away from the job of course, its then someone else's issue, but nothing will have changed .