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Microsoft To Deliver Office Hotfixes in Scheduled Cumulative Updates

2008-07-01 17:34:40 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...deliver high quality fixes in a predictable timeframe." It's also possible that, being more cumulative than individual hotfixes, the new updates will keep configurations more consist ant, and therefore testing easier. On the other hand, the blog says that, even though the updates will come in a package with multiple updates, "...[c]ustomers...
 
Tags: office hotfixes, office, hotfixes, choose hotfixes, cumulative, current weekly schedule, individual hotfixes, schedule, install
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft to Deliver Office Hotfixes in Scheduled Cumulative Updates

2008-07-01 17:34:40 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...deliver high-quality fixes in a predictable time frame." It's also possible that, being more cumulative than individual hotfixes, the new updates will keep configurations more consistent, and therefore make testing easier. On the other hand, the blog says, even though the updates will come in a package with multiple updates, "Customers...
 
Tags: office hotfixes, office, hotfixes, choose hotfixes, cumulative, current weekly schedule, individual hotfixes, schedule, install
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...deliver better performance in the virtual environment. This doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense now that I think about it. But, it was great marketing at the time See: http://www.reflexsecurity.com/news/052207 reflexships.php Firewall technology because its typically looking at headers and such take up far less CPU cycles to deliver...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...deliver better performance in the virtual environment. This doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense now that I think about it. But, it was great marketing at the time See: http://www.reflexsecurity.com/news/052207 reflexships.php Firewall technology because its typically looking at headers and such take up far less CPU cycles to deliver...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...deliver a Margin of Safety to the business, but they are not To deliver a real Margin of Safety to the business, I propose the following based on a defense in depth mindset. Break the IT budget into the following categories Network: all the resources invested in Cisco, network admins, etc Host: all the resources invested in Unix, Windows,...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Yet another benefit of executive support for SDL...

2007-11-15 23:04:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...deliver on that commitment. There's more than a grain of truth to that notion - however, for us to grow the SDL (and by proxy, our other security and privacy initiatives) we need to deliver value to the executive suite beyond simply maintaining the status quo Our success has been borne out by a lot of hard work by folks all across our...
 
Tags: community, security researcher community, security, security tools, security efforts, security tool development, windows security assurance, security science team, team
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal -- if the device had been in a person. In this case, the researcher were hacking into a device in a laboratory The researchers said they had also been able to glean personal patient data by eavesdropping on signals from the tiny wireless radio that Medtronic, the devices maker, had...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Companies struggle as Safari pops up on networks

2008-04-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
...Deliver REMOTE SUPPORT Easily. Try WebEx FREE Advertisement DOWNLOAD WEBEX SUPPORT CENTER FREE! Deliver efficient, effective support. CRUSH SUPPORT LOG JAMS
 
Tags: safari web browser, effective support, recent decision, webex free, struggle, network administrators, offer users, lives harder, networks
 
 
 
 
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Virtualization Vendors Are Not In The Security Business?

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2008-05-09 15:44:33 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...deliver appropriate security controls for virtual environments BUT should they Well, Chris Hoff who blogs on the topic of virtualization security a lot seems to think that they should deliver security tools and and by not delivering solutions to secure the environment they are doing their customers a disservice Further, I don't expect that...
 
Tags: security, security tools, deliver security tools, virtualization vendors, acquire, acquire security technology, security functionality, security controls, security concerns