Gold Builds

[Ollie <dailydave () zemes com>]

> IMHO highly customised Gold Builds are best used for blasting 
> workstation
> images out, rather than servers in which case I would prefer a standard,
> hardened OS build that the required application is then built upon.

Another good example is HPUX, how many times have you done as assessment 
they are not running HPUX in trusted mode. Yet for them to renegineer the 
application to support it would require $$$'s so they live with it! The 
benefits of building on concrete from the start rather than sand I guess.

ol

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