With only one week until Microsoft releases patches that are *not* freely available to Windows 7/2008/R2 devices, there are still plenty of managed devices running these operating systems at Duke. As seen by Planisphere in the last 24 hours, there are:
302 Windows 7 devices with an assigned Support Group (of which only FOUR have Quarantine Exemptions)
and
51 Windows 2008/R2 devices with an assigned Support Group (of which only TWO have Quarantine Exemptions)
Please do not wait until next week! Make any requests for Quarantine Exemptions (along with the date by which you expect to have these devices remediated or retired) to the IT Security Office as soon as possible. The best way to do this is to submit a ServiceNow Request to “Security-University” with as much information as you can give. This also applies to devices that cannot be migrated and will need to have long-term compensating measures put in place. Do not assume a previous conversation or e-mail thread is enough; if you do *not* see that your non-upgradable legacy device has been granted a Quarantine Exemption in Planisphere, submit a ServiceNow Request for it to receive a Quarantine Exemption as soon as possible.
