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Microsoft To Distribute Third-Party Patches

Posted by timothy on from the after-the-after-party dept.

dhiren writes "Secunia on Wednesday announced that their authenticated internal vulnerability scanner, the Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 4.0, has been integrated with Microsoft Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). This will hopefully pave the way for other vendors to also make use of Windows' existing patching infrastructure and eliminate the need for the multitude of custom updater applications and services that clutter most systems today."

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  1. Misleading article by djben · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Correct me if I am wrong, but Secunia is announcing that they are going to piggy-back on an existing WSUS server, and not that WSUS is going to start shipping with and deploying Secunia's updates for everyone who uses WSUS? I'm not sure why this is anything special at all. I help people replace WSUS all the time and they want to use less of it, not more. Perhaps I'm not understanding something here...

  2. Compare? by vlm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't do windows. Mac and Linux only.

    Could someone compare and contrast with apt-get and security.debian.org, which I am very familiar with?

    I'm not trying to ignite a flamewar, I'm just curious about the feature set. What one side would have to add to reach the other side's level, etc.

    --
    "Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
  3. OSS Alternative by bdam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The current version of WSUS includes an API that allows, among other things, anyone to publish third party updates through the WSUS system. I've been working on a project for a few months that does just that: https://sourceforge.net/projects/localupdatepubl