In the wake of recent ugly worm episodes, Microsoft is planning to overhaul its much maligned patch management architecture in an effort to ease the frustrations of corporate users. In the wake of ...

Patch management is both a security process and a system management task. We investigate the best patch managers available on the market, so you can make an informed decision. Patch management is an ...

Many security breaches can be avoided by applying software patches to known vulnerabilities as soon as they’re released by the vendor. Patch management software provides a centralized place for IT ...

A few articles ago, I started a Sysadmin 101 series to pass down some fundamental knowledge about systems administration that the current generation of junior sysadmins, DevOps engineers or "full ...

When discussing cybersecurity topics, you have probably heard a lot of discussion on zero-days, phishing, vulnerabilities, and even the latest trends for cybercrime groups. What may have been ...

There are few things I love more than getting something for “free” and having it turn out to be valuable. That’s certainly true with Microsoft’s latest attempt at easing patch management pain, WSUS ...

Quick Summary Looking to reduce security gaps and operational risk across your IT environment? Discover the 10 best patch management software solutions for CIOs in 2025 that help automate updates, ...

Brien Posey walks through the next steps involved in automating patch management for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. In the first part of this series, I showed you how to create a ...

Last week I discussed the top 5 benefits of server consolidation/virtualization. This week, we look at the benefits of Windows Server Update Services. Update ...