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What is Patch
Management ?

Let’s consider a scenario, an
organization that creates software; has created an outstanding
software to be deployed in banks. The functionality of the software
is to connect online banking system with local server where every
information of the customer being stored; a black-hat hacker has
found vulnerability on the created software and this vulnerability
may put the data at high risk. The organization that created this
software got to know about vulnerability and released a piece of code
to fix this vulnerability. Now this piece of code will be used by the
IT department in banks, the process to use the code is called
Patching and the overall workflow is called Patch Management.

Importance of Patch
Management

If
you are an IT administrator, Penetration tester or working in a
similar position; and willing to secure your IT infrastructure then a smart patch management software is therefore, very important
for your work process. In this regard, monitoring is very important
and manually you cannot perform monitoring of your network, and the
combination of systems, hence a patch management software can do the
job and create reports to automate the tasks.