Re: Getting Off the Patch

["Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" <cal.leeming () simplicitymedialtd co uk>]

failovers*

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leeming () simplicitymedialtd co uk> wrote:

> If the IOS has a remote exp vuln, then hell yes. That is, until the client
> tells us to go f*ck ourselves as the downtime would affect their SLAs and
> they don't have fall overs in place. lol.
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Pete Smith <seclists () decapitate us>wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I agree with most of the stuff that Thor has been saying and from what I
> > have read this has mostly been centred around patching software on servers.
> > However most large companies take the don't patch or patch infrequently
> > stance when it comes to network infrastructure, Cisco, Juniper, 3COM, HP and
> > other large network infrastructure companies by no means have a clean record
> > when it comes to vulnerabilities in their software but yet businesses will
> > often not patch even in environments that are highly redundant and can be
> > rebooted with no or little impact.
> >
> > Can anyone seriously say that they patch every time Cisco releases a new
> > version of IOS?
> >
> > ...
> >
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