SANS

I get a lot of junk snail mail in the office, mostly from Gartner, which seems to me to be about the most environmentally unfriendly technology analysis firm out there. (I also don’t believe half of what they report.) But a measurable percentages comes from SANS, which apparently stands for System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute. This is a mouthful.

Today I wondered if the person who came up with the acronym for an organization that deals with networking and security, realized that in Latin, “sans” means “without”, or “lacking”. The irony amuses me, I suppose.