Patch as Patch Can. Dennis Fisher of eWeek once again highlights the time honored concept of hardening publicly accessible machines. “Administrators and security specialists are relying less on the band-aid approach of patches and are moving to a philosophy that encourages locking down servers and removing as many threat vectors as possible from the outset. The idea is to anticipate the most common types of vulnerabilities and take away those avenues into the network before an attacker finds them.”