Relief may be in sight
A basic—and often painful—security best practices is system patching. It’s a basic requirement of any good security policy and is a mandate of regulations and legislation such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). There are plenty of automated systems on the market but we still find organizations patching manually—a very time-consuming, costly and unreliable practice. This is particularly true of retail organizations with many Point of Sale (PoS) terminals. Many of these terminals run on embedded Windows XP (XPe),Relief may be in a stripped down OS where a patch agent is often not an option. Pain relief for this challenge comes in the form of agentless POS patching, something Shavlik Technologies announced on Monday.
