Patch Management

By Anthony Cowie

Patch management is what every business needs to consider.
Adobe Flash Player released Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) files at the end of January and again in February. This made users anxious and they wondered when the next bug release would occur. The level of CVE reports/ bug-vulnerabilities is actually growing and it’s not just Windows that is affected but the Mac OS also has also experienced its own number of vulnerabilities over the years. Are businesses doing enough to protect themselves?

F-Secure reports show that an enormous number of corporate computers is missing critical software updates – upwards of 87%.

Gartner also states that 90% of successful attacks occurred against previously known vulnerabilities where a patch or secure configuration standard was already available.”
This all makes patching software very important.