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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

The result was that it was straightforward, at times elementary, for malicious software to own the entire system. Indeed, SolarWinds clients who enforced least privilege by not allowing any outbound data from the software except that which was explicitly whitelisted were not susceptible to the attack at all.

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Breaking Down the Product Benefits

ForAllSecure

Because protocol fuzzers license per test suite, users have access to the test suite for regression testing as well. It is a misconception that no reported bugs indicates the software under test is secure. More often than not, it indicates defects have clustered in limited sections of the software, creating hotspots.

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Breaking Down the Product Benefits

ForAllSecure

Because protocol fuzzers license per test suite, users have access to the test suite for regression testing as well. It is a misconception that no reported bugs indicates the software under test is secure. More often than not, it indicates defects have clustered in limited sections of the software, creating hotspots.