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ISS - virtual patching

Subject: ISS - virtual patching
Date: 11 Jul 2006 14:34:41 -0000
I was at an ISS event (but I guess it applies to all IPS vendors) where they 
said after a signature is written they QA it to prevent false positives, for 
about 8 weeks in the wild.
It sounded a little counter productive to the "virtual patching" claims, since 
that often means the protection comes in after I've already patched the system.
I agree I wouldn't deploy prevention prior to being sure it'll not cause a DoS 
to the network (or at all until this technology matures a little more), but 
with this attitude what is the IPS virtual patch hype all about?

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