Posted on Jan 21st, 2009
I’ve recently been doing beta testing of Windows 7, both on actual test bed machines and in virtual machines. There has been some hype regarding Windows 7′s update to Wordpad. It has the new “ribbon” user interface and can save as additional file types. The trade off for these features? Here’s my resource usage comparison [...]
Posted on Jan 19th, 2009
Last month’s Secunia research patch management survey has some pretty shocking results. According to data gathered from 20,000 users of Secunia PSI 1.0 during the past seven days, roughly 98 percent were running unpatched programs. Roughly 30 percent had one to five insecure programs running on their Windows PCs; 25 percent had six to 10. [...]
Posted on Jan 15th, 2009
In my everyday practice, I put patch management at the top of my priority list. Emergency patches are rolled out within minutes of release and an advisory/managed services pitch is sent out en masse via email a day before emergency patch release. Still, apparently many organizations aren’t taking heed, as 1 in 3 Windows PCs [...]
Posted on Jan 14th, 2009
I encounter otherwise great admins doing the same thing all the time. IT people seem to have an inherent tendency to overcomplicate things. It’s important to step back and ask yourself from time to time if you’re reinventing the wheel — and is your IT solution really more efficient than the existing solution?