I used to work for a major retailer managing updates to over 6000 stores. We had no auto updates (all linux systems in stores) and every update went through ou

I used to work for a major retailer managing updates to over 6000 stores. We had no auto updates (all linux systems in stores) and every update went through our system. When it came to audit time, the auditors were always impressed that our team had better timely updates than the corporate office side of things. I never really thought we were doing anythin all that special (in fact, there were always many things I wanted to improve anout the process) but reading about this issue makes me think that maybe we really were just that much better than the average IT shop?