On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 22:50, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Oct 2009 at 18:04, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> We schedule quick AV scans at noon on Wednesday, full AV scans on >> Monday at 8pm, and Microsoft patching (via WSUS) with a deadline of >> 05:00 Tuesday. We schedule a test group for WSUS patching the Monday >> evening after patch Tuesday, and the rest of the workstations the > > You leave the Patch Tuesday patches uninstalled for 7 days? Interesting. It > doesn't usually take that long for exploits to appear.
One other thing about that: It's a balance - MSFT has been known to issue a bad patch now and then. Waiting a week gives us a chance to evaluate the feedback from the community. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
