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Workload Reduction
Managing patches within a network relies on controlling
sets of wildly chaotic data. At best, a manual process
can only afford to do these periodically, about once
a week, with a subset of information. An automated process
takes only minutes a day, and can work with an entire
network.
Risk Reduction
According to the participants in a recent Survey:
90% reported using antivirus software
89% reported using firewalls
85% reported damage by computer viruses
60% had intrusion detection systems
YET 90% reported breaches had taken place
Installing security products is not a substitute for
addressing the vulnerabilities that hacking agents like
Internet worms, take advantage of.
Management Visibility
Without an automated toolset, the security patch
status of your network can only be tested periodically,
making trends more difficult to spot and deal with.
A Patch Management System includes a wide variety of
tracking and trending options that give you an easy
to read picture of your network's security posture over
time.
With the push of a button, here are some of the questions
a patch management solution can answer for you:
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