Re: Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?

[Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com>]

Anyone use LANDesk Patch Manager?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jeremy Pommerening
<theaudioman () yahoo com>wrote:

> I'm using BigFix after trying Lumension and hating it.  BigFix rocks!  At
> least for the moment.  IBM swallowed them up so expect that it will get
> worse but for now it's fantastic.  You can use BES Relays for the slow links
> basically designating a workstation at each site as the patching server for
> a group of computers.
>
> Jeremy Pommerening
> CISSP,GCFA,GPEN,GAWN,GCFW,
> MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4
>
> --- On *Mon, 1/24/11, Steven Sumichrast <s_s () sbcglobal net>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Steven Sumichrast <s_s () sbcglobal net>
> Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?
> To: "PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List" <
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> Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:46 PM
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>
> We are using Lumension PatchLink for Linux/Windows.  I've only had to
> deal with it now for a few months, but I think the general consensus
> is we're not too thrilled with it (from a compliance standpoint).  It
> does an ok job, but we think there are probably better solutions out
> there.
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jack Daniel <jackadaniel () gmail com<http://mc/compose?to=jackadaniel () gmail 
> com>>
> wrote:
> > I was always a big fan of Shavlik, but it depends on your environment.
> >  Shavlik does a great job on the Windows side, but I don't think they
> > have moved into other platforms.  They do support a huge number of
> > third party apps, and they have a 14 day (I think) trial so you can
> > play with it.
> >
> > BigFix seems to be very popular with larger and more mixed
> > environments- but I've never used them myself.  Someone here must
> > have, though...
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com<http://mc/compose?to=craigfreyman () 
> > gmail com>>
> wrote:
> > > What is your favorite third party enterprise patching server? I'll need
> some
> > > sort of distributed model because of slow WAN links and multiple
> locations.
> > > I'm curious to see what you all use and why you like it.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Craig
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