Discuss the difficulties in defending systems when there are delays in security updating products.

What will be an ideal response?


Hardware and software vendors are overwhelmed trying to keep pace with updating their products against attacks. One antivirus software security institute receives more than 390,000 submissions of potential malware each day.15 At this rate the antivirus vendors would have to create and distribute updates every few seconds to keep users fully protected. This delay in distributing security updates adds to the difficulties in defending against attacks.

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