Patching Faster Has Never Been the Answer
Patching is a necessary evil and doing it manually in any decent sized organization was essentially impossible in the pre-AI times and is now pure folly.
Author Bio
Dennis Fisher
Editor
Dennis Fisher is an award-winning journalist and author. He is one of the co-founders of Decipher and Threatpost and has been writing about cybersecurity since 2000. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. He is the author of 2.5 novels and once met Shaq. Contact: dennis at decipher.sc.
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The vendor says this is a configuration-dependent issue rather than a failure of the security patches themselves.
Edge Devices Under Attack, a Threatcon Preview, and Communication Breakdowns
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