In the wake of recent ugly worm episodes, Microsoft is planning to overhaul its much maligned patch management architecture in an effort to ease the frustrations of corporate users. In the wake of ...

Patch management software helps organizations acquire, test and install code to fix known vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications. It also helps them assess exposure and prioritize ...

Quick Summary Looking to reduce security gaps and operational risk across your IT environment? Discover the 10 best patch management software solutions for CIOs in 2025 that help automate updates, ...

Last week a client of mine applied the latest OS patches to its main Microsoft Windows Server 2003 server. It rebooted and kaboom! No workstations could connect to the server. After uninstalling all ...

Servers are complicated machines, requiring cool rooms and regular updates and maintenance to run properly. The problem is, many IT departments are understaffed, and adding server management on top of ...

Brien Posey walks through the next steps involved in automating patch management for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. In the first part of this series, I showed you how to create a ...

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 ...

The last time we looked at Microsoft’s System Management Server, it was in the middle of a long beta-test cycle. While the basic features of the product haven’t changed, there have been some minor ...