Issues with Keeping AntiVirus Software Up to Date

Exploring different aspects of keeping ANY virus protection software up to date to be protected from virus infection. It is obvious that as Information Security professionals that we need to be aware of all of the 'latest and greatest' information on outbreaks of malicious code including how to recognize and repair them. Also we know that we need to have virus protection software loaded at all possible points of failure within our organizations and we need to have procedures for when these outbreaks occur. However one of the most difficult tasks is keeping all of this virus protection software up to date. All reputable virus protection software products come out with updates on a fairly frequent basis and it is up to each organization to get these updates out to all computers that need to be protected. There are many ways to do this and many challenges that we face in accomplishing this but it is important to keep our organizations as 'clean' as possible.