Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden. If you ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

In the past few weeks, we’ve written about a number of third party products that help managers keep track of patches for Microsoft software. But what does Microsoft offer on its own? Well, Microsoft ...

Many security breaches can be avoided by applying software patches to known vulnerabilities as soon as they’re released by the vendor. Patch management software provides a centralized place for IT ...

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been a go-to patch management tool for over two decades, providing IT administrators with a way to distribute Microsoft updates across their environments.

Quick Summary Looking to reduce security gaps and operational risk across your IT environment? Discover the 10 best patch management software solutions for CIOs in 2026 that help automate updates, ...

There are few things I love more than getting something for “free” and having it turn out to be valuable. That’s certainly true with Microsoft’s latest attempt at easing patch management pain, WSUS ...

Corporate networks are under siege. With battalions of hackers toiling night and day to find entry points for attack, systems managers have only hours to close security holes before an invisible enemy ...

Patch management wasn’t a burning concern for many users of Microsoft Corp.’s Systems Management Server when they purchased earlier editions of the software. But that mind-set is changing. A set of ...

Brien Posey walks through the next steps involved in automating patch management for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. In the first part of this series, I showed you how to create a ...

In our test of SecurityProfiling’s SysUpdate 4.1.4 with its new Policy Compliance and Enforcement Module 1.0, we found that while the product is moving in the right direction toward policy-based patch ...