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The Costs of Patching

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-all-have-t1s-now-anyway-right dept.

prestidigital writes "vnunet has a brief but interesting article in which Craig Fiebig, general manager of Microsoft's security business unit, is quoted as saying "In dollar terms, patching is the most expensive security measures and keeping your antivirus descriptions up to date is the least." That seems like an important statement coming from a company who's patches are possibly responsible for 45% of traffic on some networks."

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  1. Re:I prefer Linux, but... by BlueTooth · · Score: 5, Informative

    RedHat's up2date works pretty well so long as you stick to their RPM releases of the software you want to keep updated.

    It works well for me, and all I need to stay on top of are things I build be hand (typically Webserver and its ilk plus kernel), but all my libraries stay nice and fresh.

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