One of the new security segments gaining market traction in the last few months has been in the area of patch management. While maintaining patches for software has always been a part of software ...

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 ...

Austin Gadient is CTO & cofounder of Vali Cyber. Vali’s product ZeroLock protects hypervisors and Linux systems from cyber attacks. Many organizations are familiar with patching, the standard practice ...

Patching-the only way to prevent poorly designed software from breaking everything-no longer works. And there's nothing you can do about it. Except maybe patch less. Or possibly patch more. Early one ...

We’ve heard it time and time again: patches and updates are the key to mitigating vulnerabilities that lead to epic Equifax-sized breaches. The logic goes that security incidents can be avoided if you ...

Much of what can be done to improve patch management ultimately rests with operating system and application vendors. However, eWEEK Labs work with four leading makers of patch management tools led us ...

This is actually a feature that was available in Linux in 2009 thanks to a program called Ksplice. This program compares the original and patched kernels and then uses a customized kernel module to ...

Report says 90 percent of successful exploits these days involve vulnerabilities for which a patch has been available for six months or longer According to a recent estimate from Verizon, 90 percent ...