ABSTRACT
Microsoft alone issues a new patch about every fifth day,
how can anyone keep up?
The complexity and the labor-intensive process of sort-
ing through growing volumes of alerts, figuring out applic-
ability to unique IT environments and configurations,
testing patches prior to implementing, and finally orches-
trating the process of timely updates begins to overwhelm
even the most resourceenabled IT organizations.
Overtaxed system administrators do not have the band-
width to deal with the torrent of patches and hot fixes.
