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I'm looking for advice on what patch management solutions you would recommend based upon your experience. I'm also looking for which ones you would not recommend based upon your experience.
We have a mixed network of Windows and Mac clients. Our central servers are all Windows servers, although…
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I'm trying to sell the idea of organizational patch/update management and antivirus management to my superiors. Thus far, my proposition has been met with two responses:
We haven't had any issues yet (I would add that we know of)
We just don't think it's that big of a risk.
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What are some good ways to have patch management and systems/hardware inventory for a Windows (Server 2003 or 2008) network?
For example, at a minimum knowing the basics for all the machines out on the network such as OS version, patch level, what hotfixes they have, processor, ram, etc.
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I'm in charge of auditing the security configuration of an important farm of Unix servers. So far, I came up with a way to assess the basic configuration but not the installed updates.
The very problem here is that I just can't trust the package management tools on those machine. Indeed some of…
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How do software houses like Microsoft or anti-virus companies patch/update their software?
Anti virus companies dont send the complete executable; only new virus signatures I suppose. Similarly, Ive noticed microsoft sends certain files to the '$NtUninstallKB......$' folder that it creates when…
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