5 Feb
2015
5 Feb
'15
1:11 p.m.
On 6 Feb 2015, at 0:55, Matthew Huff wrote:
What if you are a hosting company and those aren't your servers to patch?
Then it isn't the operator's problem.
What about the time to patch 200+ servers versus configuring one location?
Operators should have sufficient automation to do this quickly. If not, they're Doing It Wrong.
What if you have to schedule the staff and maintenance window to patch the servers?
See above.
What if you have legacy equipment that you must continue using, but the vendor is slow to provide the patch.
There are other ways (reverse proxies, on-box systems like ModSecurity, et. al.); or take them offline. ----------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>