Product Review: GFI's LANguard Network Security Scanner
Brien Posey - September 10, 2004

Taking Patch Management to a New Level

Without a doubt, one of the most tedious chores that network administrators must routinely perform is patch management. Hardly a week goes by that Microsoft doesn’t release some sort of patch. It is the network administrator's responsibility to download the latest patches and apply them to all of the organization's computers. As tedious as patch management is though, it is one chore that really shouldn't be neglected. Not only do the various patches resolve security vulnerabilities, once a patch is released the specific vulnerability addressed by the patch is made public, making the vulnerability much more likely to be exploited on un-patched machines...