Get a glimpse inside the e-book "The complete patch management book" by Anne Stanton, president of Norwich Group, and Susan Bradley, Microsoft Small Business Server MVP. This series of book excerpts will help you navigate Chapter 1, What is patch management?,, courtesy of Ecora.

Chapter 1 excerpts:

1. Book introduction to patch management
2. What is patch management?
3. Definition of Microsoft patches
4. What is a patch?
5. Identifying the flaw
6. Why do we patch?
7. What is included in a Microsoft patch?
8. Historical patch process window
9. Finding out about patches
10. The road ahead

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About the book

This e-book will help those who need to understand the evolving patch management landscape. Written by Anne Stanton and Susan Bradley, this first chapter outlines patch management basics -- from the fundamentals of patching, to the how's and why's of patching.

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