We are using a really cool piece of software called Netbrain. The tool has many overlaps with lots of tools we use and are looking at. It's a really nice "workbench" product for troubleshooting and designing changes. The person who runs the company is incredibly smart, and is a CCIE. It's new and early for this firm, but it's worth checking them out. The product has many interesting ideas and capabilities.
We all are well aware of the Microsoft patches and windows update. Same goes for those of us who use itunes and iOS devices, we know Apple Software Update. Some of us may even patch our Adobe products, which we should since they have been the largest attack vector (http://goo.gl/bOQ3D) for the past 2 years hands down. This is just at home.... How do you expect the security experts to keep on top of all of these patches in a corporate environment. The number of patches for Oracle alone is daunting to understand and analyze. There are ways to do this, you can use some clever software which I will outline below, or you can read ~25 RSS feeds and analyze vendor security bulletins. I do enjoy doing some of this, but I don't have time to keep on top of all the releases. Here is some software for home and corporate use to help manage this. Corporate Patch Management: Microsoft WSUS and SCCM - This is free and a no brainer for patchi...
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If you are also using Packet Design Route Explorer can you post also on how you are using that too.
jerry
We are using RAMS (packet designs) we have had a lot of trouble getting it into production, but we are still working on it. The issue is around the number of GRE tunnels we need, along with some hardware issues.
jerry