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Automated Patching and Updates?
From: "Sadler, Connie" <Connie_Sadler () BROWN EDU>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:20:11 -0400
Given all of the recent worm activity, etc., it seems timely to gather some information from you folks regarding what you are already doing - or planning to do - in terms of pushing updates and patches out to your user communities in a way that is not too "intrusive". We all work in diverse environments where many of our users are also sensitive to having someone else "touch" their machines. Yet it seems a losing battle to continue to manually update workstations in some areas when they are being automatically attacked in very sophisticated ways. Can you folks please share with us: 1) What you are already doing now - in terms of pushing or automating patching or updates? 2) What you are evaluating or looking at for doing this kind of thing - and in what areas of your environment? 3) What technologies you are familiar with and what platforms the solutions support? Thanks much! I am willing to summarize the input I receive if I get enough good feedback... Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM Director, IT Security, Brown University Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912 Connie_Sadler () Brown edu PGP Fingerprint: 452A C178 1450 9CE1 3AC1 CC12 956F 2C55 DB94 A9C7 Office: 401-863-7266 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/cg/.
Current thread:
- Automated Patching and Updates? Sadler, Connie (Sep 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Ron Parker (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Howell, Paul (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Craig W. Drake (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Ron Parker (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Tavakoli, Rooz (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Bradford B. Saul (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Wehner, Paul (wehnerpl) (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Bradford B. Saul (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Craig W. Drake (Sep 25)
- Re: Automated Patching and Updates? Christian Grewell (Sep 25)
(Thread continues...)