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Virtual patching: Lower security risks and costs

Deep security

Published June 2015

Patch management for vulnerability remediation can be a painful exercise for IT departments. If it were easy, patch release and deployment would be predictable events and vulnerabilities would be addressed within acceptable timeframes.

This paper reviews enterprise challenges with security patch management including risks to various areas of IT: security, compliance, operations, and budgets. It discusses how traditional approaches to remediating vulnerable systems can create new problems and provides a new model that keeps pace with the ever-increasing number of attack vectors.