Keeping systems up-to-date

All software contains bugs. Thus, in a general scenario, the software patches are available almost every day for most operating systems. Some of the patches might fix the security vulnerability; however, some updates might just enhance the functionality of the software. When the security patches are made available, we need to make sure that they are applied to the systems as soon as possible.

Let's understand the Windows-based approach for updates and then we will move on to a Linux-based server.

The Windows update methodology

In a Windows-based system, we generally get notifications related to the pending updates via Windows Update Center. It also further classifies the updates based on various...