We list the best patch management tools, to make it simple and easy to manage software updates for your PC or IT network. With new software vulnerabilities and exploits appearing daily, it's vital ...

“Managing updates on so many different pieces of software, on so many systems, can be overwhelming and effective updates may slip through the cracks,” he wrote.

The technological needs of organizations today are very different from five or 10 years ago. Software updates aren’t a "nice to have" anymore—they’re essential for delivering new features ...

Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.

Patch management is simply the practice of updating software – most often to address vulnerabilities. Although this sounds straightforward, patch management is not an easy process for most IT ...

Application creep isn’t doing enterprise IT any favors. A recent survey from patch management firm Adaptiva found that, on average, organizations manage 2,900 applications. That’s a lot of ...

Patch management is only 40 percent of what BigFix does, Starry says. He also uses the BigFix system for endpoint protection, Windows firewalls, software asset management and power management.

Patch management is a thankless job. Data shows, despite best efforts, that 80 percent of enterprise applications have at least one unpatched vulnerability in them, according research by Veracode .

Patch Management Challenges. Patch management is an aspect of vulnerability management that automates the deployment of vendor-issued patches to remediate security vulnerabilities and other bugs ...

Patch management software is available in a wide variety of forms, each one offering a different way to attack the problem (see The Fix Is In). If you’ve assessed your requirements correctly, ...

In addition, patch management needs to be more data-driven to stop the increasing sophistication and volume of attacks. Even if insurance providers write ransomware coverage out of contracts, ...

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