Virtual Patching: Lower Security Risks and Costs

Patch management for vulnerability remediation can be a painful exercise for IT departments. If it were easy, patch release and deployment would be predictable events and vulnerabilities would be addressed within acceptable timeframes. Instead, emergency patches persist, IT staffs scramble to deploy them, and security officers brace themselves for the worst casea data breach or unplanned system downtime. Beyond emergency patches, predictable events such as planning to maintain security for out-of-support (OOS) enterprise software pose an added challenge. For such systems, ongoing security patches cease, forcing IT operations to choose between expensive support contracts or accept the risk of exploits targeted at OOS systems with unpatchable vulnerabilities. And some systems are inherently difficult to patch such as point-of-sale devices, kiosks, and medical or other embedded devices. Yet these devices may be critical to the business.

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Netsurion is a managed security service provider specializing in the protection of multi-location businesses’ information, payment systems, and Wi-Fi networks from data breaches, network outages, and ever-evolving cyber threats. We help protect multi-location businesses’ information, payment systems, and on-premise public and private Wi-Fi networks from data breaches and other risks.

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