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Don't Just Patch, Protect!
There is a tragedy in our information security world that is being ignored. External attacks on corporate resources continue to gain the attention of the media. Why? Because they are sensational, the things movies are made of. But study after study c...
A Practical Methodology for Implementing a Patch Management Process
The time between the discovery of an operating system or application vulnerability and the emergence of an exploit is getting shorter, sometimes only a matter of hours. This imposes pressures on IT managers to rapidly patch production systems which d...
Automated Patching: An Easier Approach to Managing Your Network Security
Patch management is an essential administration task within today's busy IT networks with the constant threat of new security bugs. Some companies will wait for an attack before taking necessary action to protect themselves from further threat wh...
Automating Windows Patch Mngt: Part I
This article, the first in a three-part series, discusses Microsoft's Software Update Services (SUS) in depth, including installation, administration, and maintenance.
Automating Windows Patch Mngt: Part II
In this segment of the Windows Patch Management series, you'll learn what happens on the client computers when SUS is active, how to monitor the client's patching activities, and how to fix or work around some common problems.
Automating Windows Patch Mngt: Part III
The final installment of this series discusses two alternative, low cost tools to manage the application of patches to Windows systems, and also provides information on the upcoming, revised Software Update Services (SUS) from Microsoft.
Beyond Patch Management
Systems maintenance, including operating system and software upgrades and patch management, has long been a major factor in security-related incidents. Application upgrades and patches can be equally necessary to system integrity, yet are equally lik...
Case Study in Automating Branches of a Bank
This case study will highlight points that were addressed while automating 85 locations for a bank. These branches had three separate networks, one for each: Automated Teller Machines, IBM developed Systems Network Architecture (SNA) mainframe applic...
Lessons learned from Microsoft's MS06-013 patch
This article takes a quick look at the functionality changes in MS06-013, and then discusses the new types of deployment decisions that are being made within enterprise environments in light of this critical Microsoft security patch.
Oh Patch How I Hate Thee; Let Me Count the Ways
Welcome back to the article series on security management. In this article we will discuss patches, dispel some of the mystery about them, and tell you how they will impact your security. When I first started writing this column I did not intend to t...
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