The latest research around patch management is a good reminder for security teams to move patch diligence up the stack to applications and to resist disabling signature checking for performance in UTMs. Qualys Inc. presented an update at the recent Black Hat USA 2009 briefings to their Laws of Vulnerabilities research, a timely statistical review in light of the increase in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, and Apple QuickTime application level attacks. The study, first conducted in 2004, is based on years of accumulated vulnerability scanning data of the Qualys installed base.
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