If the onslaught of Trojan horses, worms and viruses has taught us anything, it’s that software patches are as vital to network security as virus updates. The infamous Blaster worm and the more recent ...

Most large organizations have patch management and antivirus scanning nailed. They use enterprise systems management tools to automate the entire process and don’t worry about vulnerabilities. Many ...

In our test of SecurityProfiling’s SysUpdate 4.1.4 with its new Policy Compliance and Enforcement Module 1.0, we found that while the product is moving in the right direction toward policy-based patch ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

With the security of the network at stake and new exploits arriving almost daily, an ad hoc approach to software fixes won't cut it At one time, the concept of patch management merely meant keeping an ...