Friday, November 14, 2003

Gartner: use different platforms to minimize Day Zero impact Gartner recommends multiple platform deployment as protection from "Day Zero" attacks. Enterprises that maintain 10% or more of their desktops on an alternative operating system, such as Linux or Macintosh OS, are much less vulnerable to business outages than those that use only one operating system, such as Windows. Link from the Hentzenwerke Publishing blog. 8:54:03 PM    comment []

CIO Magazine: FrankenPatch -- the story of SQL Slammer Some interesting conclusions that patching doesn't work. Not convinced that I agree. Patching may not work if the underlying operating system is insecure enough, perhaps. But an interesting read. CIO: FrankenPatch. "Those looking to cast blame--and there were many--cried a familiar refrain: If everyone had just patched his system in the first place, Slammer wouldn't have happened. But that's not true. And therein lies our story. Slammer was unstoppable. Which points to a bigger issue: Patching no longer works." Link from Tomalak's Realm 7:42:09 AM    comment []