Take a look at Rod Trent's e-book "The Administrator shortcut guide to patch management" with this series of e-book excerpts from Chapter 1, Why is patch management important?, courtesy of Realtimepublishers.com.

Chapter 1 excerpts: Why is patch management important?

1. Introduction: The importance of patch management
2. The security landscape
3. Types of vulnerabilities
4. Eight strategies for securing vulnerabilities
5. Additonal reasons why patching is important
6. Patching resources

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About the book

Written by author Rod Trent, this e-book examines the critical IT challenge of patch management and its current state of affairs in the corporate network world. The e-Book delivers in-depth looks at the impact of patch management on corporate security and risk management, its best practice methodologies and the tools that are available to manage this mission-critical IT process, which is becoming both more complex and more strategic.

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