"The best way to resolve a problem is not to try and avoid it."
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- Gartner recommends installing personal firewalls -
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Madrid, July 15 2003 - The Gartner consultancy has recommended the
installation of personal firewalls, at least, across all corporate laptops
and ideally all desktops as well.

Gartner's recommendation, reported by TechWeb, responds to the growing
number of vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems. This means that
companies are constantly having to apply the patches released to
workstations and laptops in particular.

Gartner has also brought attention to the delay in applying these patches.
On average, companies take from between six and 18 months to apply patches
after they are released and for this reason, corporate computers are
continuously running unnecessarily high risks.

Gartner believes that installing personal firewalls, firstly in laptops and
then desktops, should be a priority for companies to reduce unlimited
exposure to the Internet and prevent unauthorized running of executable
files Internet.

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