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How IKEA Patched Shellshock
jones_supa writes: Magnus Glantz, IT manager at IKEA, revealed that the Swedish furniture retailer has more than 3,500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. With Shellshock, every single one of those servers needed to be patched to limit the risk of exploitation. So how did IKEA patch all those servers? Glantz showed a simple one-line Linux command and then jokingly walked away from the podium stating "That's it, thanks for coming." On a more serious note, he said that it took approximately two and half hours to upgrade their infrastructure to defend against Shellshock. The key was having a consistent approach to system management, which begins with a well-defined Standard Operating Environment (SOE). Additionally, Glantz has defined a lifecycle management plan that describes the lifecycle of how Linux will be used at Ikea for the next seven years.
if its anything like my general Ikea experience, im sure the security ops team was handed a cardboard box labelled "Schelli schocc" with a 7 page manual full of bloated looking stick figures and a tiny hex wrench. they were then left to figure it out over a long night of busted knuckles and impromptu invented curse words. by dawn, either the prod environement passed a nessus scan or theyd built a bed...or both.
Good people go to bed earlier.
By making the customers do most of it themselves.
Table-ized A.I.
Apple is mainly a propaganda company, so that's no surprise. I always enjoy Linux propaganda for its amateur style and heavy use of hyperbole.