[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

Jonathan Buzzard jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk
Fri Feb 21 11:04:32 GMT 2020


On 21/02/2020 02:00, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 23:38:15 +0000, Jonathan Buzzard said:
>> For us, it is a Scottish government mandate that all public funded
>> bodies in Scotland are Cyber Essentials Plus compliant. That's 10 days
>> from a critical vulnerability till your patched. No if's no buts, just
>> do it.
> 
> Is that 10 days from vuln dislosure, or from patch availability?
> 

Patch availability. Basically it's a response to the issue a couple of 
years ago now where large parts of the NHS in Scotland had serious 
problems due to some Windows vulnerability for which a patch had been 
available for some months.

JAB.

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