An excellent article. I am afraid he is right. There will still be a lot of unpatched, unprotected systems a few months down the road. There will be some exploit to take advantage of it. As several others noted, firewalls won't protect the inside of the network, once it comes in via a laptop, email or web page.

Even though most of our client's networks run Linux servers, that won't eliminate problems in the workstation arena nor those specialized Windows servers they do use.

As my clientelle have few Windows servers, we can patch those easily enough. Workstations, especially, the roving ones and random purchases will be harder.

I'm not looking forward to it.


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