Re: Automated Patching and Updates?

[Christian Grewell <christian () NYU EDU>]

Just to clarify: are you talking about *one* management console to manage patches and app updates (such as personal 
firewalls, antivirus, etc) to all flavors of operating systems on campus (macs come to mind)?

If so I'm very interested in what others are doing on the macintosh side - true, they don't get attacked like a MS box, 
but it'd be great to have cross-platform compatibility from one location.

SMS is great in a vanilla OS environment, but I'm curious to know the cost of implementing something like this in a 
large scale educational environment.

Glad to see others thinking about this seriously :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ariel Silverstone <ariel.silverstone () TEMPLE EDU>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:22:17
To:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Automated Patching and Updates?

This is exactly the situation I am trying to avoid.  We would like one product, and thus one management console, to be 
able to handle all patching and updates.  Not sure yet if it is possible, and will keep all informed.




Thank you,



Ariel Silverstone



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