RE: Windows patch mgmt.

["Robinson, Sonja" <SRobinson () HIPUSA com>]

Welcome to the nightmare.
MBSA does not always catch all, sometimes you need to uses SMS as well but
it catches most.  Between the two you are relatively safe.  ALso, MS doesn't
make patches for all vulnerabilities so you need to take that into account.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Denton [mailto:ddenton () PAYLESSOFFICE com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:09 PM
To: pingywon MCSE; Depp, Dennis M.
Cc: bob martin; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Windows patch mgmt.


MBSA stands for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. Try searching for
that.

-----Original Message-----
From: pingywon MCSE [mailto:pingywon () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:06 PM
To: Depp, Dennis M.
Cc: bob martin; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Windows patch mgmt.


Could you link this utility I couldnt seem to find it on MS.com


Thanks 

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:40:10 -0400, Depp, Dennis M. <deppdm () ornl gov>
wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Have you looked at MBSA from Microsoft.  This tool will allow you to 
> scan your network and will report on any machines that are missing 
> updates.
>
> Denny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob martin [mailto:bobmartin_613 () hotmail com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:41 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Windows patch mgmt.
>
> Hello all.
> Basic patching question for you.
>
> We have a small environment (approx. 300 desktops and 50 servers) and 
> the question has come up how do we test all desktops/servers after a 
> windows
>
> patch has been installed.  Given that the networking/desktop team 
> consists of 6 people, I'm a bit stumped on how we can do this 
> efficiently.  We use
> St. Benard's Update Expert to push out the patches and to verify
they've
> been installed.
>
> Currently we push to a QA environment and let it soak for a week or 
> two while it's being used for it's normal functions.  The concern is 
> if the server isn't being used for testing, then we may push a patch 
> to a production server without it being "tested."
>
> Any suggestions would be very welcomed.  Any more, there's so many 
> windows patches that it's almost a full time job for one person to 
> manage them.
>
> Thanks.
> Bob
>
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