Enterprises are cautious about installing patches to fix chip Defects

Enterprises are cautious about installing patches to fix chip Defects

For the hardware vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre that affected most chips exposed last week, some companies have suspended software patches due to concerns that fixing chip security vulnerabilities may slow down computer operation speeds or even cause computer system crashes, fear is counterproductive. "Installing patches on all computers without proper tests may cause system crashes and make all employees unable to work, "said Ben Johnson, co-founder of the cyber security startup Obsidian. Greg Temm, Chief Information Risk Manager of the financial service information sharing and Analysis Center, said the bank is testing the patch to see if it will slow down the computer's speed; and if it slows down the computer's speed, which modifications should be made. For example, a computer can be connected to the network to make up for the low speed of a single computer processor. Johnson said some popular anti-virus software programs are incompatible with patches, which may cause the computer to stop responding and display "blue screen Crashes ".

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