Interested journalists are welcome to attend this seminar tomorrow.
Using Patents as a Basis for Understanding Secure Patch Management Systems: The Creation of an Instruction Set Taxonomy
and a Unified Model
Date: Tuesday, 8th October 2002 OCH 140A, Old Choral Hall Corner of Symonds and
Alfred Streets Time: 12:30-1:45 pm. All Welcome
Abstract
Security breaches and software bugs are periodically discovered resulting in the issuing of software patches and
updates. To accommodate the proliferation of updates being issued, software manufacturers have developed update systems.
As a basis for developing a history and an overall understanding of update systems, a worldwide search of published
patent and patent applications (English filing countries) was conducted based on an inter-process search criteria. The
primary objective was to review complete, software-based updating systems that are applicable to patch management.
What shall be presented are highlights of the resulting research, an instruction set taxonomy, the application of said
taxonomy to a review of security design provisions, and a simplified, unified model of patch management systems.
About the Speaker
Andrew Colarik is a doctoral candidate and assistant lecturer at the Department of Management Science and Information
Systems at The University of Auckland.