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Time to End Microsoft's Patch Tuesday?

Posted by Zonk on from the plenty-of-time-for-trickery dept.

buzzardsbay writes "Techtarget's resident security curmudgeon, Dennis Fisher, is calling for an end to Microsoft's monthly security patching cycle. Fisher points out that 'a hacker only needs one unpatched system, one little crack in the fence in order to launch a major attack on a given network. The sheer volume of the patches Microsoft releases each month makes it quite difficult for even the most conscientious IT department to get every patch out to all of the affected systems in a reasonable amount of time.'"

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  1. Re:Volume of patches won't get better by Intron · · Score: 2, Funny

    To reduce the problems caused by the volume of daily patches, they could save them until a particular time and refer to that as "patch minute". I propose that they make this 5:35 pm in each local timezone to catch the IT staff who are trying to sneak out and have a home life.

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  2. Re:The Real Reason for Patch Day by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dennis Fisher fails to grok.

    True. Patch Tuesday will arrive when waiting is filled.

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  3. Billg's Response by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    End patch Tuesday? That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.