{"id":643,"date":"2005-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/03\/15\/no-unfair-advantage-in-early-patches-says-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:51","slug":"no-unfair-advantage-in-early-patches-says-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"No Unfair Advantage In Early Patches, Says Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Microsoft formally implemented the [SUVP] for testing security updates, providing a small number of dedicated external evaluation teams limited and controlled access to security updates to test for application compatibility, stability and reliability in simulated production environments,&#8221; the spokesperson wrote in answer to a question posed during Tuesday&#8217;s security Webcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUVP was disclosed by the Wall Street Journal; until then, the year-old program had been a closely-guarded secret.  It&#8217;s so secret, in fact, that a search on Microsoft&#8217;s Web site for &#8220;SUVP&#8221; comes up empty.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said that SUVP&#8217;s testing is beneficial to everyone, since &#8220;the end result is high-quality update for customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson denied that the Air Force, or any other organization or company participating in SUVP &#8212; the Air Force is the only participant that&#8217;s been named so far &#8212; gets a jump when it comes to patches.  &#8220;The program is not designed to give the Air Force or any customer who participates in SUVP, a competitive advantage, and the service does not receive mission-critical patches before any other customer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.techweb.com\/wire\/security\/159900380<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}