RE: Not patching clients??

["Matthew L. McGuirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

Robert,

Wow. What a nightmare scenario. If anyone in your organization has a
laptop and you have a DHCP server that will hand out IP addresses to all
who ask for one, it's just a matter of time before the fit hits the
shan.

As Slammer taught us, many networks, even those belonging to first
responders, are connected to the internet in unforeseen ways. The notion
of "protect the perimeter and pray for everything else" is ancient
history. Perimeters are porous and prayer doesn't hurt but it won't keep
your stuff safe.

There are vendors who address internal security in novel and very
practical ways. The one I suggest you check out is MetaInfo. They make
tools which make sure that every IP address that gets allocated is going
to a machine which meets specific authentication criteria. 

http://www.metainfo.com/ 

Cheers,

Matt McGuirl
Lucid Security



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