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

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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