Before You Update Or Upgrade To The Latest Software - Part 3

Deploying critical updates, bug and security fixes/patches can be tricky as you need to weigh the benefits of immediately deploying these updates with the risks of potential incompatibility with existing software and hardware and the potential of these updates creating new or unexpected problems within your environment.

Typically, critical updates, bug and security fixes/patches should be deployed as soon as possible as these updates are intended to fix or patch known issues and/or security holes in the software which a malicious user can exploit to gain unauthorized access to critical systems, data and information.

In these cases, it is important to fully understand what these critical updates provide, whether there are options to mitigate any risks that would result from not immediately deploying these updates to allow more time for testing and evaluation and to prioritize testing and evaluation of these critical updates, bug and security fixes or patches to determine if they are safe to deploy in your existing environment.

If they are safe, these updates should be deployed as soon as possible.