Yet with the advent of sophisticated automatic patch management tools, this scenario can be eliminated. Until recently, the main reason for this was because installing patches was a cumbersome and daunting job. One such notorious case was Zotob, the August 2005 worm that spread by exploiting known vulnerabilities in unpatched Microsoft SQL 2000-based computers. Time and again, however, countless administrators fail to apply the right patches leading to worms which exploit security vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems. Failure to do so makes a network doubly vulnerable not only is the vulnerability there, but it has now also been publicized, making it more likely to be exploited by malicious users, hackers and virus writers.
It consists of scanning machines on the network for missing patches and deploying those patches as soon as they become available.
GFI SoftwareĢ Introduction Patch management is an essential network administration task. 1 A cost-effective and easy solution for network-wide patch management This white paper provides an overview of how to use GFI LANguard and Microsoft Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to keep your network automatically updated with the latest security patches.
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