Patch DoS

With the current economic situation throughout the world (2001), recent events regarding homeland security in the United States, and the ongoing transition into a new E business era, the pressure to secure our networks and systems has resulted in some troubling trends. While we are all aware of the 'ship first patch later' methodology used in most IT projects we are just starting to feel the ramifications of these methods as they relate to security in a 24x7x365 ecommerce environment.