Security · · 7 min read
The Patch Treadmill Part 1 - The Math Nobody Runs
Your patch cycle isn't behind by a fixed amount. If your time-to-compliance is longer than the vendor's release interval, you are diverging - and the gap never closes on its own. Here's the arithmetic, using Chrome as the example.
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Specific Exceptions are Cool
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Enabling the New Microsoft Teams
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The creeping danger of CVE-2023-23397
On March 14th, a new man in the middle vulnerability was announced. While it certainly wasn't the first of its kind or the last the way information about the update came to light and the fragmented responses of organizations worldwide concern me. It's only going to get worse.
