The important part is schedule. As in they will be patched in a timely manner. Only the time of day is negotiable, sort of. As long as you are not working at 2am because of it.
AV. they will have it. It will be updated. But my stuff won't work if 'patch' breaks it.... "It's a security patch, your stuff will need to work with it" Steven On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen it done a number of ways. I'll stick to the pleasant ones. :) > > Put them on their own network, and even own domain, and setup a schedule > for patch management that works for both IT and Development. > > In one place, we segmented the dev team and further segmented their > virtualized development environment. Some of them were given additional > rights to regulate AV on their local machines, but anyone who got infected > was made less privileged the next time around. > > We only had 3 repeat offenders, including one guy who wrecked a portion of > the dev environment and earned the wrath of his colleagues. We simply > locked him down, recovered the environment from snapshots and moved on. :) > > > *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> > *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* > * * > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:03 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For those of you in software development companies – how do you handle >> development machines vs. normal employee use machines as far as managing >> patches, AV, level of local user permissions, etc. you don’t have them on a >> separate subdomain or anything do you? >> >> *David Lum** **// *SYSTEMS ENGINEER >> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION >> (Desk) 971.222.1025 *// *(Cell) 503.267.9764 >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
