Patch management

[JCOest]

I was wondering what everyone uses for patch management. With the extensive speard of the blaster and other worms and viruses, what have you found to be the best way to keep your machines protected. Right know we investigating 3rd party options like, Ecora and St. Bernard software packages.

What options have you considered?

 

[MCSEGrl]

I'm using SUS (software Update Services) on one of my 2003 servers and I have it set to go out every evening to check for updates. My client macines then recieve the updates in the morning after I've approved them. Here's where you can read more about it:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/windowsupdate/sus/default.asp

Its free! And it beats the heck out of "sneaker-net".