The first talk that I saw today was Adam Shostak's talk about patch management. His basic messages were somewhat common sense -
- Patch unreliability presents a significant amount of risk.
- Patching too quickly or without considering that risk is insane.
- Consider the cost of capital and business risk before applying patches willy-nilly.
You know, while that seems pretty obvious, it's probably very much like a quote that I heard from Stephen Covey yesterday: Common sense is most often not common practice"
All in all, a decent message, especially for the audience here.