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Guess which two pieces of unpatched software provide points of entry for most security breaches. (Hint: They're not Windows)

By Roger A. Grimes
JULY 23, 2013

Last week I talked about the single best thing you can do to prevent malicious attacks on your network: whitelisting. Unfortunately, a lot of people simply can't adopt whitelisting due to politics, operational needs, or both. I understand that.

So here's the second best thing you can do to reduce security risk: perfect patching.

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