Day 30 - Applying Patches and Updates
Today's topic revolves around applying patches and updates as a response measure.
My first personal comment is that patching and updating is really a Preparation step and helps avoid incidents in the first place. But we all already knew that. :-) I'm interested in how your patching and updating process differs when you've had an incident before patches become available.
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Chris: wants to remind us about Secunia's PSI inspector. I should also point out that we musn't forget the home-user scaled incident response.
Anonymous: wants to remind us to disable an unpatched service until the patche become available-- especially in the dreaded "zero day" scenario with exploits ongoing and patches still being developed/tested.
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