In depth video where Mark Cox, team lead for the Red Hat Security Response Team, talks more about security on a Linux server.
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"Red Hat knew about 52% of the security vulnerabilities that we fixed in advance of them being publicly disclosed. The average time between Red Hat knowing about an issue and it being made public was 22 days (median 10 days).... A default installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS was vulnerable to 14 critical security issues over the entire five years. "
Working in a Security Response Team (SRT) is a pretty demanding job, but if you think it's one of the worst jobs then you're probably working for the wrong SRT.
