Is the federal government able to comply with our requirements for strong authentication, file encryption, vulnerability and patch management, and privileged user controls?

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They have even introduced a patch management tool.

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While some customers use this to overcome problems they have with enforcing vulnerability and patch management policies it is a cumbersome technology that does nothing to address new threats, zero day vulnerabilities, or insider attacks.

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Begin the patch management process again.

FORBES: Vulnerability Intelligence Versus Vulnerability Management

They institute patch and configuration management and they have organized Computer Emergency Response (CERT) teams.

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Big Flat sits in the middle of the Bureau of Land Management's 64, 000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, a patch of northern California so rugged that the engineers who built Highway 1, which hugs the coast from San Diego to Oregon, took the road 30 miles inland here to avoid it.

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