The best defense ...

is a good offense only works in sports where one team can maintain control over a token that enables them to score points while, at the same time, disables their opponents from scoring points. In football, rugby, and soccer it's the football. In hockey, it's the puck, and in hoops it's the basketball. In computing, "the best defense is a good offense" falls flat on its tush.

The best defense in computing goes to the vigilent. But what do the vigilent watch? and do you do it by land, sea, or air?

I could spend most of my blogging career reporting vulnerabilities and patches; but I watch the U.S. Cert Technical Alerts where I saw that Microsoft recently released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows, Office, Jet Database Engine, Windows Live OneCare, Antigen, Windows Defender, and Forefront Security, all part of their Security Bulletin for May 2008.

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