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Patch Management:

Patch Management:. It’s Not Just About the OS Anymore Adam Carlson ajcarlson@berkeley.edu CSO, RSSP Department UC Berkeley. Agenda. Some Info About The Problem Aggravating Factors Mitigating Controls Choosing a Solution On With the Real Information. What Is The Problem?.

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Patch Management:

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  1. Patch Management: It’s Not Just About the OS Anymore Adam Carlson ajcarlson@berkeley.edu CSO, RSSP Department UC Berkeley

  2. Agenda • Some Info About The Problem • Aggravating Factors • Mitigating Controls • Choosing a Solution • On With the Real Information

  3. What Is The Problem? • Over Time Vulnerabilities Are Discovered • Exploited In Ways That Avoid Detection • Difficult To Prevent • Priority One According To SANS The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.- Gene Spafford

  4. Adobe Reader * Adobe Acrobat * Adobe Photoshop Adobe Flash Player * Java Runtime Environment * Quicktime * Firefox * ITunes * Skype * Thunderbird Winzip MSN Messenger RealPlayer * DameWare Mini Remote Control Winamp * 7-zip FileZilla VLC Sophos Anti-Virus Symantec Anti-Virus Foxit Pidgin What Types Of Applications? In theory, one can build provably secure systems. In theory, theory can be applied to practice but in practice, it can't. — M. Dacier, Eurecom Institute

  5. But Patching Gives Me The Chance To Reconnect With My Users Source: http://www.cert.org/stats/

  6. What Makes Things Worse • Users With Local Administrator • Lack of Centralized Patch Managmeent • Lack of Good Auditing/Inventory Software • Software Vendors • Users "On the negative side, I've been getting charged for a ton of stuff I didn't order lately. On the positive side, I did win that 'Who's Got the Best Password' contest on AOL last week." — Spike Donner.

  7. Some Things You Can Do • No Local Administrator Rights • Web Proxy or Central Server for Web Surfing • E-mail Scanning/Filtering • Strong Browser Security Settings / No Script Firefox Add-On • All of The Normal Things • Patch OS, Run A Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware • Other Suggestions?

  8. Patch Management Solutions • BigFix • Patchlink • Shavlik • Lumension • Altiris • Many Centralized Control Suites (GFILanguard, Kaseya, etc.) • Secunia Personal Software Inspector • Others?

  9. Choosing The Right One • Support for Applications in Use • Auditing/Discovery Capabilities • SLA That Promises Release Timeline • Cost • Complexity • Release Engineering Capabilities • Others?

  10. Questions? “People in general are not interested in paying extra for increased safety. AT the beginning seat belts cost $200 and nobody bought them.” -Gene Spafford

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