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RSS patchSecure Your Networks: Patch Management to Simplify System Updates
White Paper Attendees will gain a solid understanding of the necessary tools and processes required to help simplify patch management. This webcast will go through best practices and step-by-step procedures to create, implement, and support a simplified system... [03 Jul 2008]
Patch slip-up raises security questions
News Last week, the Internet Software Consortium withheld the patch for a critical flaw in the domain name system (DNS) software from a large number of researchers, asking instead that each person send the organisation an email request in order to get... [21 Nov 2002]
The Challenge of Securing Hard to Patch Servers in Health Care Environments
White Paper In the face of this inability to patch quickly, most of the solutions on the market are poorly suited to mitigate the vulnerabilities and provide an adequate compensating control, without compromising system availability, flooding administrators... [22 Dec 2006]
Automating Security Patch Management (UK)
White Paper With ManageSoft® Security Patch Management you can transform desktops, laptops, and servers into self-patching devices that automatically ensure security compliance. Download this "Automating Security Patch Management" White Paper to learn how with... [08 Dec 2004]
IE flaw - Microsoft releases patch
News Microsoft on Wednesday advised Internet Explorer users to apply a patch for a vulnerability that could allow a website administrator to steal data or take control of a person's PC. The patch came two days after the software giant pulled a patch for... [06 Feb 2003]
New e-book on Patch Management Technical and Business Fundamentals
White Paper Gartner said it loud and clear: “Over 90% of cyber attacks exploit known security flaws for which a patch is available”. Download your copy of a new e-book, The Complete Patch Management Book: A Technical Exploration and Practical Guide of Patch... [29 Nov 2004]
Patch Management With GFI LANguard N.S.S. & Microsoft SUS
White Paper Patch management is an essential network administration task. It consists of scanning machines on the network for missing patches and deploying those patches as soon as they become available. Failure to do so makes a network doubly vulnerable... [03 Feb 2005]
One month on Microsoft issues patch for flawed Protocol
News Microsoft has finally released a full patch for the vulnerability in the Simple Network Message Protocol revealed by CERT almost one month ago. Microsoft originally released a work-around for the problem on 12 February but yesterday updated this... [07 Mar 2002]
MSM Patch Management Process
White Paper This PowerPoint presentation offers detailed information on the four steps that comprise the Microsoft Solutions for Management (MSM) patch management process: Assess Environment to be Patched, Identify New Patches, Evaluate & Plan Patch... [18 Feb 2005]
Performance Comparison: VERITAS File System Version 3.4 Patch 1 Vs. Solaris 8 Update 4 UFS
White Paper This paper compares the performance of VERITAS File System version 3.4 Patch 1 and Sun UNIX File System (UFS) on Solaris 8 Update 4 (64-bit unless otherwise specified) under a variety of workloads. UNIX File System fsck performance essentially... [14 Jan 2005]
Windows Update patch reporting KiXtart script
White Paper Used in conjunction with Windows Update, the Windows Update patch reporting KiXtart script gives you a list of servers with pending patches. With this process in place, now need to know which servers need patching and which don't before you can... [17 May 2006]
Security Patch Management Web Seminar
White Paper The webcast discusses how patch management works with the Marimba infrastructure and all areas of Marimba products. This webcast explains how Marimba rapidly detects system vulnerabilities and immediately deploys the most up-to-date security... [22 Jun 2005]
Does Microsoft patch policy create more problems than it solves?
News If a hole is found in the wild [Microsoft] should respond in a timely manner regardless of their patch cycle," he explained. He said: "Perhaps it makes it easier for the system administrators to do one major fix-it patch instead of several each... [11 Nov 2003]
Microsoft gets ahead of itself with WMF patch
News Microsoft released a fix for a serious security vulnerability in Windows on Thursday, several days before the patch's scheduled delivery. The company is breaking with its monthly patch cycle because it completed testing of the security update... [06 Jan 2006]
Critical Patch Update Implementation Best Practices
White Paper This white paper describes best practices when implementing an Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) for enterprise customers running Oracle. After the executive summary, the first section of the document provides general information about CPUs. [02 Mar 2006]
