With OS patching becoming critical to keep systems protected, it is more and more difficult to achieve due the ever increasing frequency of OS update cycles. Monitoring OS patch compliance is a hot topic, intended to help admins keeping up with latest patches and to keep IT management informed about areas of risk. Thanks to the Nagios open architecture, patch check plugins can be easily developed and integrated to provide a enterprise view on the current patch status of the OS variety found in larger organisations: Cisco, Windows, Linux and AIX.
| Frank MiggeAs manager IT Security in a financial company I am working on translating abstract IT security policies and compliance regulations into real-world IT, using flexible open-source solutions such as Nagios. |
