Vendor Patch Days
As I perform the work necessary to maintain "The Radar Page" (view it here), I have found it handy to know what vendors publish bulletins on a schedule, and what that schedule is.
- Monthly, first Monday
- Qualcomm
- MediaTek
- Monthly, first Tuesday
- Google publishes Android patches
- Google publishes Pixel patches
- Samsung
- Fortinet
- Monthly, second Tuesday
- Microsoft
- Adobe
- SAP
- Siemens
- Schneider Electric
- Intel
- Lenovo
- Monthly, second Wednesday
- Palo Alto Networks
- Quarterly, first Tuesday
- Splunk
- Quarterly, second Wednesday
- Juniper
- Quarterly, the Tuesday closest to the 17th
- Oracle
- Quarterly, no fixed schedule
- F5
- Semiannually, the fourth Wednesday of March and September
- Cisco, bundles of Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisories