RE: Anti-Virus Updates - How?

["Ramki B Ramakrishnan" <bramkie () gmail com>]

In reality any change; updates, config, patch, etc can break a system. The
best solution would be to adopt a formal change and release management plan;
and subject all changes including a/v to this plan.

This should help in countering/mitigating any potential issues/outages that
could crop-up after a change. ITIL would be good reference to start.

HTH,
Ramki

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Ian Bradshaw
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 8:19 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Anti-Virus Updates - How?
>
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if anyone has a plan for deployment of AV updates?
>
> There have been a couple of AV updates that have trashed systems
> recently
> (one from CA and one from McAfee).
>
> Neither of these have affected me (fortunately) but we do have all our
> systems set to update to the latest definitions - so guess it will
> happen at
> some point.
>
> The problem is, in a small IT department (4 staff with ~5,000
> pcs/laptops
> over 10 geographic locations - we don't have much spare time!), what is
> the
> best way to deploy AV updates?
>
> Given the number of updates sent out, it's not feasible to test them
> all
> when they are released.
>
> So, leave auto-update on or hold back and test say once a week and
> update
> then, or what?
>
> Any thoughts? / how do people do it at the moment?
>
> Cheers
>
> I.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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