Cybercriminals actively seek opportunities to infiltrate IT environments, such as the period between a patch's release and its installation. According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, 5% of ...

Hoping to better protect themselves against escalating security threats such as the W32.Blaster worm, user companies are taking a fresh look at automated patch management technologies. These products, ...

Successful patch management requires planning, processes, testing, integration of multiple security tools. Davidson Healthcare in Lexington, N.C., got a wake-up call recently when a vulnerability scan ...

One of the tantalizing possibilities of large language models (LLMs) is speeding up software development by finding and closing common types of bugs. Now the technology is seeing modest success in ...

Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. According to an International Monetary Fund report, the global cost of cyber crime is projected to reach $23tn by 2027, a staggering 175% ...

Rapid7, Inc. has announced the launch of Active Patching, an automated patching and remediation solution integrated into its Exposure Command platform, designed to enhance security for IT teams. As ...

Keeping systems secure without jeopardizing reliability, productivity or customer trust is a high-stakes responsibility for IT teams. Reactive or ad hoc patching can unintentionally increase risk by ...

Patch management is both a security process and a system management task. We investigate the best patch managers available on the market, so you can make an informed decision. Patch management is an ...

FAIRFAX, Va., May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A universal law enforcement axiom states that criminals prefer to trespass through vulnerable open or unlocked doors or windows. In the IT and software ...

Keep your Linux operating system and the software you run on it fully up to date. You don’t have to worry about remembering to perform patching if you take on one of these automated systems. Automated ...

Staying current with vendor security alerts, assessing the risk that these vulnerabilities pose to your business and testing and applying software patches to close these holes are onerous tasks that ...

Following basic security practices for patch management strategies is only partially solved by better tools and culture shifts, say IT experts. Enterprise security patching remains a challenge despite ...