Making good progress on a business which wants a SAS deployment and I'm working on a business case (I think this is the 5th one). It would be great for us and for them if it materializes. We'll see if it flies in the next few weeks.
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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The most recent version (7.0) is a different story. Opsware/HP has cut down on quality and innovation in this release.
I found some of the new features useful, but a lot of the work put in was around the integration capabilities.
The integration with NNM will be very useful!