IT Management
Computerworld, 10/14/04: Beyond patch management
Opinion by Phil Neray, Symantec
OCTOBER 14, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - By now, IT managers are familiar with the major challenges posed by patch management. The story goes something like this: Software vendors are releasing many more patches due to the increasing number of vulnerabilities uncovered in widely used software programs. Simultaneously, the time between the announcement of a known vulnerability and the appearance of a threat targeting that vulnerability is rapidly diminishing. This situation raises the pressure on administrators to quickly identify vulnerable systems, test new patches and rapidly deploy them.
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ZapLink Blog, Ronald Schmelzer, 10/13/04: The Industrialization of IT
IT is moving towards industrialization, says Ronald Schmelzer, a Web services expert and founder of ZapThink, a web services company. He posits that a service oriented IT architecture develops in response to a company’s increasing desire to stop custom producing their own IT components. In this regard, service oriented architectures and outsourcing are two aspects of the same macroeconomic trend that drove the industrialization of manufacturing and agriculture.
Now, we just need to learn to do it right.
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Mobile / Security
BugTraq, 10/14/04: How to kill a BlackBerry
Apparently, there’s a flaw with BlackBerry devices that sync with Microsoft’s Exchange server using Blackberry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange. The error occurs when someone receives a long meeting request with a bunch of text in the location field and sets the time to a date in the past. This induces the BlackBerry to reboot and erase all stored messages. With enough of these meeting requests queued into someone’s mailbox, their Blackberry would become unusable.
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