By Andreas M. Antonopoulos, SVP, Nemertes Research Inc.
June 2, 2006

Two recent items in the news highlight an important trend in security: Companies are struggling more and more with patches.

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC, http://www.symantec.com/) just released a patch for its Norton AntiVirus 10.x product to fix a critical security vulnerability that could have led to attacks against thousands of companies running the corporate anti-virus suite.

Just two months ago, McAfee (NASDAQ:MFE http://www.mcafee.com/), suffered from a flawed signature which caused it to mis-identify documents and spreadsheets as malware.

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