[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/3/2021 2:22 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <s6p8bg$d6m$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> Huh ??? The majority of VMS users don't care about keeping their
>> systems up to date and fully patched ???
>>
>> I am having a hard time believing that...
> 
> Do you have some numbers?
> 
> Keep in mind that some customers can only rarely reboot, and some
> patches require a reboot.

It is common for patches to require a reboot.

But well managed secure system does get rebooted occasionally.

Standards like PCI-DSS mandate patching in a timely manner
(1 month for critical security patches).

Arne