Just trying to wrap up a few things, and get some more help on my team here. With the language barrier I face in Geneva, meeting and spending time face to face really helps a lot. I'm headed up to France for my brothers wedding for a few days, then a week back in the office and headed home. I will post more info on my trip and some details of the projects and such I have going on when I am back (or flying across the ocean and not sleeping). Been working long days, and long nights. I have been here almost a week now, but it seems like 3 days. I miss home :)
We all are well aware of the Microsoft patches and windows update. Same goes for those of us who use itunes and iOS devices, we know Apple Software Update. Some of us may even patch our Adobe products, which we should since they have been the largest attack vector (http://goo.gl/bOQ3D) for the past 2 years hands down. This is just at home.... How do you expect the security experts to keep on top of all of these patches in a corporate environment. The number of patches for Oracle alone is daunting to understand and analyze. There are ways to do this, you can use some clever software which I will outline below, or you can read ~25 RSS feeds and analyze vendor security bulletins. I do enjoy doing some of this, but I don't have time to keep on top of all the releases. Here is some software for home and corporate use to help manage this. Corporate Patch Management: Microsoft WSUS and SCCM - This is free and a no brainer for patchi...
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