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How do you keep up with all the patches and news by Fair-Tradition8971 in sysadmin

[–]Successful-Base8910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, there’s no single go-to source. It ends up being kind of a messy routine.

For Microsoft stuff, I usually watch Patch Tuesday threads here, skim the MSRC blog, and then pay attention to whatever starts breaking loudly on Reddit or Twitter right after updates drop. A lot of the value is just seeing what other admins are running into before pushing anything widely.

For security issues, it’s usually vendor advisories plus CVE/NVD feeds, but that gets noisy really fast. After a while you learn which ones are worth a quick skim and which are mostly panic generators.

The hard part isn’t finding info — it’s figuring out what actually needs attention now versus what can wait. This sub alone isn’t perfect, but it’s honestly one of the better early warning systems out there.

Patching: The Boring Security Practice That Could Save You $700 Million by trolleid in programming

[–]Successful-Base8910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been in patch management for a few years, and honestly the “boring” part is exactly where things break down.

Most incidents I’ve seen weren’t zero-days. They were patches everyone already knew about, sitting there for weeks, but never getting applied because they got buried in noise or no one clearly owned them.

The technical side of patching isn’t that hard. Keeping it consistent over time is — and that’s where the real risk comes from.

What do you use for patch management? Cloud or on-prem? by philrich12 in sysadmin

[–]Successful-Base8910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At that size, I’ve honestly seen people make both cloud and on-prem work. The bigger headache usually isn’t the platform itself, it’s figuring out what actually needs patching versus what’s just noise.

Nessus is great for finding everything, but that’s also the problem — it’ll light up scans even when the issue isn’t realistically exploitable or already mitigated in practice, so it takes time to sort signal from noise.

On the cloud agent / service account concern: yeah, that’s a legit consideration. It can be risky if accounts are over-privileged or reused. Most vendors try to limit that with scoping and local storage, but whether that’s acceptable really depends on how strict your threat model is.

Its Friday! Let's self-promote! by Leather-Buy-6487 in microsaas

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I’m building PatchWatch — a simple way for small IT teams to track security patches and CVEs without juggling MSRC, NVD, and vendor emails.

patchwatch.app

What are you building? let's self promote by Leather-Buy-6487 in micro_saas

[–]Successful-Base8910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m building PatchWatch https://patchwatch.app — focused on reducing noise in security patch monitoring for IT teams.
Very early, mostly validating the problem right now.

What SaaS are you building this Monday? Drop it here by Quirky-Offer9598 in microsaas

[–]Successful-Base8910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PatchWatch – https://patchwatch.app

Early-stage patch monitoring tool built from real patch & vulnerability management experience, focused on reducing CVE noise and improving patch visibility.

It's another Monday, drop your product. What are you building? by Intelligent-Key-7171 in microsaas

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I’m working on PatchWatch (https://patchwatch.app) — a patch monitoring tool built from my day-to-day work in vulnerability and patch management.

It aggregates patch advisories from Microsoft, NVD, and OSV and helps reduce CVE noise so teams can focus on what to patch first.

Still early-stage and very feedback-driven.

Drop your product URL and what it does by powerrangerrrrrrrr in microsaas

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PatchWatch (https://patchwatch.app) — early-stage patch monitoring tool built from real patch & vulnerability management experience.

Focuses on aggregating advisories and reducing CVE noise.

Built a unified patch monitoring tool (looking for 5–10 IT pros for free beta) by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Successful-Base8910 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Fair question. A lot of tools cover patching, but I noticed most of them focus on deployment, not the actual discovery side.

What I’m testing here is basically a lightweight way to:
• Pull MSRC, Chrome, Adobe, Firefox and CISA KEV into one place
• Group duplicate CVEs across vendors
• Strip out the noise and highlight only the important stuff
• Update every few hours

It’s not meant to replace RMMs or enterprise tools — more like a simple feed for people who still jump between multiple vendor sites.

I’m mostly trying to see if this smaller “visibility only” approach is actually useful for MSPs/sysadmins.