dilemmas

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Thu Nov 3 03:35:44 UTC 2016


On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:03:32 +0900, Royce Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:47 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>>> the sysadmins' dilemma: do you install today's critical update or
>>> wait a day until the next one is out before you reboot 50 servers?
>>
>> Neither. You wait for the normal patch cycle because the other six
>> barriers to exploiting the vulnerability will work just fine until
>> then.
>>
>> The vulnerability that cuts through every layer of a well engineered
>> defense is rare.
> 
> As is the well-engineered defense.

yep.  and thanks for the forward, reminding my why i have a long
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