Windows patches and NetApp CIFS

Another thing that comes up with predictable regularity is when ill-informed security professionals at a company engage people like eEye Digital Security (but by no means exclusive to them) to do vulnerability audits on their network. Shock, horror, oh the disaster, the nightmare, the sky is falling (you now I can do hyperbole and cliche's until the cows come home) and all of the NetApp controllers are insecure because they are vulnerable to MSnn-nnn and on and on and on. Well, not to worry. It's the audit software that is faulty and should be trained to properly recognize what it's interrogating for vulnerabilities.
If you want to see whether or not it is OK to apply a Windows patch to your PCs and whether or not vulnerabilities apply to any aspect of the NetApp platform you should simply click on: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/MS_security/index.shtml. Obviously you will need your own NOW account to log on.