Adobe is following the lead set by Microsoft and Oracle
and plans to start issuing patches for its expanded product suite
as part of a set cycle.
Starting next year, Adobe plans to release monthly security
patches for its products. It has issued a number of patches this
year to its main products that have prevented remote attackers from
taking over users' systems.
Microsoft currently issues security updates on the second
Tuesday of the month, and Oracle issues them quarterly.
Following its acquisition of Macromedia earlier this month,
Adobe now has nearly 100 products to support and update, so a
regular patching cycle is preferable.
The company’s most popular products include the Adobe Acrobat
file creation and management system, the free Adobe Reader for
handling documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF), and the
recently acquired Macromedia Flash Player, which is installed on
the majority of internet-connected PCs.
Adobe has not chosen which day of the month it will release the
updates, but it has confirmed it will release advanced notification
of patches in the same way Microsoft does.