Agreed, also make sure different services have minimum required permissions to run and use different service accounts and processes for each service when possible. Keep your attack surface small by disabling unneeded services and properly configuring your firewalls. All these things just lower the chance a zero day will be applicable to your systems.

The nature of a zero day is that you don't know what is vulnerable or what you need to secure, so risk mitigation is the way to go

On 2012-05-22, at 8:07 AM, "AK" <platsakos (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:

> Hi,
> a nice viewpoint in the face of zero days is sandboxing. By sandboxing
> applications you accept the fact that,even after what hopefully is a
> best effort you will still have security vulnerabilities and you try to
> limit as much as possible the effect of such aftermath. This is more
> suited to application level as payloads disabling kernel-level
> enforcements are not unheard of :-)
>
> On 5/22/12 8:04 AM, amishra.jsr (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Traditionally all the anitvirus, IPS works using signature based technique. This doesn't help in zero day attack. Therefore, what can be done to prevent zero-day attacks?
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