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| InformationWeek: Many Oracle Users Don't Apply Security Patches |
14 January 2008
 A survey of more than 300 Oracle users in more than a dozen cities by Sentrigo found that two-thirds had never applied an Oracle security patch.
Oracle on Tuesday is scheduled to issue 21 patches for its database, applications, and related products, a move that reflects a four-year old patching process. But a software executive who's been visiting Oracle user groups says only a third of Oracle database administrators adopt the patches.
Slavik Markovich, chief technology officer of Sentrigo, a database security firm, said he's been making presentations at Oracle Users Groups around the U.S. since August, and at each one he asks for a show of hands on how many attendees have adopted one of the two most recent Oracle Critical Patch Updates. He also asks how many have adopted at least one update since Oracle started issuing them.
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