December 23, 2021 by Admin
What is an appropriate frequency for updating operating system (OS) patches on production servers?
- During scheduled rollouts of new applications
- According to a fixed security patch management schedule
- Concurrently with quarterly hardware maintenance
- Whenever important security patches are released
Explanation:
Patches should be applied whenever important security updates are released. They should not be delayed to coincide with other scheduled rollouts or maintenance. Due to the possibility of creating a system outage, they should not be deployed during critical periods of application activity such as month-end or quarter-end closing.