Comments on: Patching up problems

System managers are turning to an old approach to network security to ease the stress of keeping up with plugging holes.

[ordaj]

I believe the real answer lies in...

...hardware security at the edge:

http://www.wave.com

[catchall]

I agree but..

Right up until some nit-wit (your favorite manager here) takes their laptop on the road, using it from every open WI-FI they can find, letting their kids play games on it, you name it, then bringing it back inside the network.
Hardware at the edge is VERY important, but there is no one magic solution.

[rpms]

Just waiting for someone to say that Mac OS X is the answer

I'm surprised no one has yet suggested that Macintosh OS X is the solution. Everyone knows that Apple customers never have to download software patches, right?

(In case it isn't obvious, this comment is meant to be sarcastic.)