Security Patches for Internet Servers

Hackers and malcontents who want to destroy the Internet, and your business don’t sleep.  The computer systems they employ don’t sleep; they are automatons.

Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 12:30 AM in the morning a worm was released on the Internet that shut down 13,000 Bank of America ATM machines and impacted over 247,000 systems world wide.

Five of the thirteen root servers that are the very foundation of the domain name service system were completely disabled.

Hundreds of thousands of Internet sites and services where down or otherwise slowed to a crawl’s pace.

What happened?  How could this nightmare have been prevented?

While the FBI is still tracking down the persons involved in setting off the worm, it all boils down to one patch that was not applied when Microsoft released it to the public on July 25, 2002.

That’s right, six months after the patch was publicly available, and the majority of organizations across the world did not apply this patch.

Bloomberg Financial News, technical department, asked why on Monday, January 27, 2003.

The answer was astonishing…

``Chief information officers are faced with a deluge of patches, and it becomes an issue of prioritization, and it's very expensive,'' Rouland said. A consultant charges about $100 an hour and takes about two hours to fix each server, he said.

That’s $200 per patch!

Think about the following facts for a moment:

• In 2002, Microsoft Corporation came out with 72 security patches.  A consultant charging $100 per hour, and taking two hours per server would charge $14,400 per server per year to apply 72 patches.
   
• In 2002, RedHat came out with 38 security patches for RedHat Linux.  A consultant charging $100 per hour, and taking two hours per server would charge $7,600 per server pear year to apply 38 patches.

We Manage Servers charges $75 per server per month.

There is no limit as to how many patches, and we work with all of the major operating systems.

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Try our Security Patch program on your servers today FREE^*. If you are not completely satisfied after 30 days, you are under no obligation.

Call the We Manage Servers Solutions Team Today!

Call toll free at 1-888-691-9287 or toll at 1-717-484-1062 and ask for Jake. You can also email .

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Security patches is the application (installation) of updates for applications and operating systems.  Security patches is not the same as hardening a server; security patches is only one aspect (layer) of server security.