Old and obsolete software left dormant on systems represent a security debt that enterprise security managers ignore at their peril. This is reducing the ‘attack surface’ of the device.įor systems with Java installed, when the periodic updater runs to look for security patches and new versions of Java it will not only recommend old versions are uninstalled but if Java has not been used for 6 months, it will recommend to the user that they uninstall Java completely from the device. All software contains bugs and vulnerabilities, so one method to limit the number of ways your computer can be attacked is to reduce the amount of software running on it.
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