A Race for Security: Identifying Vulnerabilities on 50 000 Hosts Faster than Attackers
Michal Procházka · 2011
Unpatched security vulnerabilities are often misused by attackers to take over machines or cause other harm to computers and their legitimate users.Having proper and timely patch management is crucial to keep the system secure and resistant to common attacks targeting known weak spots.For this, a monitoring system that is able to provide a global view of the whole infrastructure is inevitable.In this paper we present service Pakiti that makes it possible to monitor patches across a number of machines and retain a fresh overview about the patching status.Using Pakiti a system administrator can detect machine where patching failed for whatever reason or was not initiated at all.