Re: Firewall Patching - Best Paractices

[rrprecilla () gmail com]

You subscribe to your vendor security update and get the most recommended OS for your firewall.
Of course, you need to have a testing appliance to deploy the patch or upgrade . If you dont have any, always confirm 
with your vendor or consultant if the release is recommended . 

Also, you have to take note and read the Release Notes thoroughly. Find what is required on your environment and read 
it carefully ... 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Hanna <subscription () geeksvictoria com au>
Sender: listbounce () securityfocus com
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:29:18 
To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Subject: Firewall Patching - Best Paractices

Hi All,

I'm looking for opinion for what are the industry's best paractice for
managing the upgrdae/patches to the firewalls. I'm devloping a process
to have the firewall updated/checked for patches regulary but looking
for opinion how other folks are doing it. My ideas are following:

- A mailing list for the company with all InfoSec community part of it
and then subscripte that list for updates from Cisco, Checkpoint.
* for Cisco, I've found the lists but for Checkpoint I couldn't figure
out where to subscribe.

- Infosec reffers the update/patch to the network teams and they
consider the risk factor and asses if the patch needs to be
immediately applied for at some regular cycle.

thanks,
P

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