Federal regulators are reminding organizations about the importance of identifying and patching software vulnerabilities. But why are these seemingly basic security steps so challenging for so many, ...

A few years back, business came to a grinding halt for a European supermarket chain when it was infected with the Conficker virus. The virus caused the system to slowly use up all the system resources ...

Austin Gadient is CTO & cofounder of Vali Cyber. Vali’s product ZeroLock protects hypervisors and Linux systems from cyber attacks. Many organizations are familiar with patching, the standard practice ...

Organizations that use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize the patching of software security vulnerabilities reduce their potential exploitability compared with randomly ...

Patch management software helps organizations acquire, test and install code to fix known vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications. It also helps them assess exposure and prioritize ...

Keep your Linux operating system and the software you run on it fully up to date. You don’t have to worry about remembering to perform patching if you take on one of these automated systems. Automated ...

What is patch management software? Patch management software helps IT departments acquire, test and install code changes for the software running in the enterprise. It can also assess vulnerabilities ...

Mississippi State University Information Technology Services will continue deploying a third-party software-patching application to Windows-based desktop computer next week. The rollout of KACE, an ...

FAIRFAX, Va., May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A universal law enforcement axiom states that criminals prefer to trespass through vulnerable open or unlocked doors or windows. In the IT and software ...

Microsoft has made available a tool to fix . SUS is an older version of Microsoft's current Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) software that lets users manage patches for multiple computers. The ...

Software Update Services (SUS), an older version of Microsoft's software that lets users manage patches for multiple computers, has hit a snag. "If you synchronize your server after December 12, 2005, ...