Meltdown and Spectre patches: Where to start and what to expect

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Now that we’ve all exhausted ourselves running around screaming that the sky is falling over the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, we’ve still got jobs to do: Enterprises to secure. Management to placate. Shareholders to handhold. Corporate security governance to, err, govern.

The sky is falling, to be fair, but only a little bit. The Meltdown and Spectre speculative execution security vulnerabilities affect pretty much every piece of silicon in your enterprise, with the possible exception of very old or low-end devices that offer only in-order execution on chip. (Raspberry Pi, anyone?)

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