"Patch as fast as you can" appears to be yet another common security practice leading to network doom. Bricked machines can't be hacked easily, so this may help a bit with "security". But then again, how insecure do you want your machines to be in order to support the latest and greatest patching tools. Nice story from Lyalc:
Ok. This would get me a bit scarred too. Windows File Protection (WFP) is a great feature to keep those Win2k and 2k3 systems a bit more secure, and make hacking them hard enough that some script kiddies may not bother. I like it, and wouldn't want it to be disabled all for sudden.
Ok. this would get me excited too (and excitement is never good in security. I like my security operations to be boring...). Payment systems, I think I heard of a couple cases where they got attacked. Yes, they appear to be patched. But what patch? How long were they vulnerable before the patch was applied? And well, defense in depth is for people who can't do incidents response as Lyalc?coninues:
So what happened? How can this possibly be a false positive?
Ah! The patch system.? Just a word about patches, in a week where we just got done with a good number of highly critical emergency patches for shellshock: Stop worrying about speed alone. You will lose. Think about shellshock and heartbleed: You can't possibly patch an enterprise fast enough. What you need instead is:
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