On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:13, Jay Beale wrote: > Patching isn't really 90%. It seems like that because organizations > still aren't keeping up with patches and thus don't know what would have > happened if they had. It seems like that because we're not getting > caught in the first two parts of our windows of vulnerability that often > just yet. If a worm comes out in time window 1 or 2, your 1-hour patch > turnaround won't save you.
My point is that if one forgets the fundamentals, all of the firewalling, GPO setups, nifty scripts, and other work is useless. What good is your firewall if you forgot to patch it and it's being controlled from outside? :-) -Luke -- Luke Scharf, Systems Administrator Virginia Tech Aerospace and Ocean Engineering _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
