Well you don't have to put anything that important online, for starters. Doing stupid things out of lassitude is a choice that comes with consequences, like when you decide to put your entire voting system online. Look at all the time we saved with that one. Brilliant! lol
Super duper tough field too, learning how to apply all these "security patches", pointing a scanner at your network and looking at the results when it tells you exactly what to do about it.
So yeah, uh, download the appropriate file to the server and double click the icon. That's literally how a server is "patched", a monkey can do it. Only problem is zero day exploits (exploits that the vendor doesn't know about yet because some 14 year old autistic kid found it yesterday) so it's idiotic to have anything of real value out there.
I have another word for you, CONTRACTORS. Government employees can't really do anything, nevermind things like double clicking icons 'n sheeit. Their job is to ask the contractor if the icon has been double clicked and if not, when it will be done. lol
The only reason that any of this is considered "difficult" is that the average man has the IQ of a frigging feret. lol
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