Title :
Surviving Insecure IT: Effective Patch Management
Author :
Liu, Simon ; Kuhn, Rick ; Rossman, Hart
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;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2009.38
