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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/Jumpy_Potential1872 on 2024-01-22 13:40:55+00:00.
Outside of items with a known CVE associated with them, do you keep device firmware and drivers up to date across your fleet of installed hardware? Or, do you let it sit with "tried and true" until there is a problem.
I'm running into the issue with some devices showing buggy behavior that is resolved with the latest and greatest driver and or firmware. BUT, in the past we've been bitten by doing a driver upgrade that throws in other previously unseen issues in our environment.
If you do manage all driver revisions, how do you inventory all of that and keep it up to date? We see probably 100 different models of computers, printers, scanners, etc... and each one has multiple subcomponents that might need to be patched.