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Vulnerability Protection: A Buffer for Patching
Author: Vikram Phatak - CTO, Santosh Pawar - Vulnerability Analyst -
Lucid Security
Published: Friday, 13 August 2004, 10:04 GMT

The purpose of this paper is to identify the problem facing the network
security community regarding vulnerabilities and patches. It explains
why current security technologies such as firewalls, intrusion detection
and prevention systems, and automated patch management solutions have
failed in preventing vulnerabilities from being exploited. Finally an
alternative approach is proposed that incorporates and builds upon
existing security technologies.

http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=252

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Joe Klemmer 
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer