The Five Ps of Patch Management
So why aren’t businesses catching on to patching? The bottom line is that many IT teams simply do not have the resources or time. Just researching the 4,000+ vulnerabilities published by security monitoring body CERT in the last year would demand hundreds of man-hours. And although an IT staff may be online regularly to see what patches are released, they cannot be 100 percent sure that all systems are properly patched.
Then there’s the cost issue. Recent research from analysts at The Yankee Group found that it can cost as much as $1 million to manually deploy a single patch in a 1,000-node network environment. The costs include the manual labour involved in fixing problems and system downtime while patches are being applied.
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