Tool Time: Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI) Mervyn Heng, CISSP – May 2013 The beauty of running Ubuntu Linux is the ease of maintaining your Operating System (OS) and software using the apt command or Update Manager. Both tools offer a single mechanism of keeping your system patched and up to date. The same cannot be said of Windows because the built-in update program only caters to Microsoft proprietary software such as the OS and Microsoft Office for examples. Microsoft has enterprise tools like System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to install patches and upgrades to servers as well as endpoints but there are still standalone systems that require manual patching. Besides Microsoft components, there are a host of other software (eg. Reader, Flash, Java) that are require to support business operations but highly susceptible to compromise. Maintaining them can be tedious, time consuming and insecure as an administrator may not....