Frida Ghitis: The Slammer worm was the fastest spreading worm in history. Ghitis says the worm was unstoppable, but patching no longer works. She says the current manufacturing process for patches from disclosure of a vulnerability to the creation and distribution of the updated code makes patching untenable. Ghitis writes that the only certainty is that CISOs will bear the costs of bringing order to the intractable. In this penny-pinching era, other C-level executives are bound to ask the CISO why this is necessary, she says.”]
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