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Re: [LUG] Exeter Uni hit by Vista virus

 

Quoting Steve Lee <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

2010/1/21 Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Not updating *any* system leads it to be insecure, however I can
perfectly understand why the SUS Admins didn't auto-approve - but not
why they weren't on top of the updates in the first place.

Quite - you have to do an impact analysis on any patch - and hope it
doesn't introduce more holes.

Steve


Yep I'd have thought they would have some sort of testing lab to test updates before rolling them out. At a previous company I used to work for they would generally delay updates for testing for about a fortnight to test against all the different systems, unless that is it was an ultra urgent update.

Rob




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