Effective Patch Management:

How to make the pain go away
Overview
Why Patch?
Security Patches
Where we are
Why is patching painful?
Lies and Excuses!
State of Software Tools
The Real Problems
Uptime vs. Security
Where We Are
Reconciling The Views
Timing the Application of Security Patches for Optimal Uptime
Timing the Application...
Where We Are
Risk Management
Security Issues
Patch Issues
Business Issues
Making it concrete
Some sample numbers
The $105,000 question
"Why patch?"
Better Patch Mgmt SW
More Managable Deployments
More Secure Software
Bug (and software) Development
How To Move?
How To Get There
Where The Tools Fit
Static Checkers
Dynamic Checkers
Language Selection
Adding Resilience to Code
Free UNIX techniques
More advanced tools
Issues with Hardening Tools
Selling Your Boss
How You Buy Software
Sample Scoring
Deployment Budgets
Deployment Business Cases
Summary