Irvine, CA – I just read an article in BloombergBusinessweek. It should be of concern to everyone in this age where we give up our privacy with nary a thought. There is now a company out there scouring the World Wide Web on every single bit of information they can scour up on you and then they associate with an account based upon your name, e-mail address, home address, etc.
This database has “weaponized” the information about you. They are gathering everything about you… everything. Your DMV record, photographs of your car from stoplight and registration cameras, phone numbers, all of your past and present addresses, birthdate, even purchasing and behavioral habits. As the article notes, “The cloud never forgets….”
If you want to read the whole article, click here to read This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.