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Patch Management Strategy Research Paper

This research paper will focus on issues and concerns with Patch Management. With the advent of many types of software and systems, patch management is major nightmare. Patching the system may cause the system to crash, and not patching it can leave it vulnerable to attacks. Please research the issues and concerns with patch management and provide your views on the topic. Please consider this at an enterprise level where the complexity is increased exponentially with the increase in the number of systems.

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  • APA Format
  • Number of Pages: Minimum of 3 to 4 Pages not including Cover, Table of Contents and References.
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Patch Management methodology white paper in the SANS reading rooms would serve as a good start for your research.

Note: This paper has to be totally plagiarism free and use APA 6th ed., 7th printing formatting and contain a title page, a minimum of four references, thanks

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Patch management is of vital concern to any organization with a view of having smoothrunning technological systems. To also ensure that this is well taken care of, updating all these
systems is mandatory for those planning on having malware virus free systems which should be
of great efficiency in their use.
Patch management, apart from being of effective and efficient use as is required, has its
issues and concerns that may be of hindrance when it comes to the operations by technological
systems. Patch management is greatly exhaustive and time consuming, especially when it comes
to ensuring that all the technological systems are patched and are updated regularly.
There are several problems that are associated with patch management, for instance,
unavailability of a report on patch management (Mizzi, 2011). This becomes a problem when it
is not clear which devices or technological systems have been patched, therefore making
compliance by the organization difficult. It is required that those handling patching be able to
view the current status of devices that are in need of patching so that patch management can be
done in detail and updated on a regular basis. Complexity of patch management increases with
an increase in the number of technological systems sinc...


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