In response to the recent news of the Meltdown and Spectre computer chip bugs which could potentially allow attackers to access sensitive data, microprocessor manufacturers and operating system vendors have been busy devising patches to protect against the perceived security risks. While these rapidly-introduced patches are intended to address the security vulnerabilities, they may incur some performance penalties on the underlying systems.
We will strive to provide our clients with early warning of any adverse impact resulting from the applied processor patches. Currently the EDM team is actively monitoring the performance results of our continuous integration and performance tests to assess any potential performance degradation for our managed services and client-installed implementations.
In this fluid situation where the impact can vary significantly depending on usage and complexity of operating environments, we encourage our customers also to monitor their own EDM installations where applicable.
Any clients who do notice any performance degradation of EDM once their systems have been patched are encouraged to notify EDM Support.
