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 directly conflicts with configuration management best practices of quality assurance testing. Many organizations are struggling to keep current with the constant release of new patches and updates. At the same time, they are under pressure to provide near 100% availability o...