RE: Handling new vulnerabilities like WebDav - SUMMARY

Robert,

> Minus the vendor plugs, here is a summary of the

Thanks for providing a summary.  

> 1. Maintain an accurate inventory of your assets to

I work in an all-MS shop, and we've opted to go with RippleTech's PatchWorks for patch management. It's extremely helpful in not only rolling the patches out, but also keeping track of what's installed where.  

> 2. Use a preventative IDS solution to prevent the

"preventative IDS" is almost a contradiction in terms.  Something that detects does not necessarily protect. As far as prevention, or "intrusion prevention" goes, there are a number of ways to go about it, ranging from system hardening to installing third party products such as Okena's suite of products. Other products, such as Nokia + ISS RealSecure, bill or market themselves as "intrusion prevention", but they really aren't.

> 3. Run an immediate scan of your environment to

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This is pretty high-level, but completely accurate. "Scan", "determine your risk", and "mitigating controls" are all very general terms that rely on a lot of political and monetary factors within each organization.

HTH, Harlan