Who is responsible for patches and updates on a personal computer of a CEO in a business?

Question

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Answer 1

The job should fall to the IT department of the company that the CEO works for. The IT department should have a update/patch procedure that outlines how/when patching should be done. For the most part windows and other such operating systems update them self however some IT intervention is necessary to check that updates and patching are installing free from errors.



If the CEO's computer is in an IT office environment and the IT team are competent they should have a update server running. This server down loads updates and patches for Microsoft products and then pushes them out to the officer computers to install. Should the office computers fail to install them they can alert the IT department that they need to check the machines out. The Windows server software that can do this auto updating is called Windows Server Update Services or WSUS for short. You can check it out on the windows website.



However if the company is too small to need an IT department or can not afford one the CEO him/herself may need to manually run updates on their own computers.

Answer 2

If it is a personal computer owned by the CEO then I fail to see how it is any responsibility of the business IT staff. It it is an asset owned by the company then the responsibility falls to the IT staff employed by the company. Otherwise, I don't think the IT staff should be responsible for it. Ultimately this would be dictated by the demands of the executives, the willingness of the IT staff to "help out" the CEO, and business policies.

Answer 3

I would think it is the Network Administrator. Of course they may hire someone outside the company. I think very few of the old guy CEO's know any thing about PCs.

It does make you wonder.