DocumentCode
1200584
Title
Surviving Insecure IT: Effective Patch Management
Author
Liu, Simon ; Kuhn, Rick ; Rossman, Hart
Volume
11
Issue
2
fYear
2009
Firstpage
49
Lastpage
51
Abstract
The amount of time to protect enterprise systems against potential vulnerability continues to shrink. Enterprises need an effective patch management mechanism to survive the insecure IT environment. Effective patch management is a systematic and repeatable patch distribution process which includes establishing timely and practical alerts, receiving notification of patches or discovering them, downloading patches and documentation, assessing and prioritizing vulnerabilities, performing testing, deploying patches, and auditing.
Keywords
security of data; software maintenance; enterprise systems; insecure IT environment; patch distribution process; patch management mechanism; Application software; Databases; Documentation; IEEE news; Information security; Mission critical systems; Monitoring; National security; Software development management; Subscriptions; IT Professional; patch management; security; vulnerability; vulnerability alerts; vulnerability assessment; vulnerability scan;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
IT Professional
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1520-9202
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MITP.2009.38
Filename
4804050
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