New Poll: Which Patch Delivery Schedule Works the Best for You?

Published: 2012-05-08. Last Updated: 2012-05-08 02:01:38 UTC
by Kevin Liston (Version: 1)
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I've enabled a new poll today in honor of this month's Patch-Tuesday.  In your organization is it easier for you to set aside that 2nd week of the month to focus on security patching, or is it easier for you to integrate security patching into your everyday system administration?  I've always felt that if your environment was large enough to have it's on vulnerability management team, a steady stream of security advisories was preferable to the shock of all arriving at the same day.  However, not everyone is that size, so it may be easier to schedule widespread reboots on Tuesday nights, saving Wednesday for dealing with any consequences (which seem to be happening less often, thankfully.) 

Which would you prefer in your environment?

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The big company "Indians Booting Machines" likes the 2nd tuesday, as that means they can schedule the changes to test on the day of the patch, and the change for production a few days later. So for us that is fine.
A big shop do need changes, and staged rollout. We can't risk taking down thousands of machines. We don't have enough sneakers to fix them all in reasonable time.
For the small organizations I have worked at, the "all at once" approach worked well.

For the larger organization, it helps to stagger things. There are too many people involved to try and do everything at once.

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