<p>eWeek has an article up discussing the possibility of Microsoft including automatic patching in the next version of SQL Server. The article is unclear about what exactly this would entail, but it ...

Users and developers have hailed Linux as the operating system that "just works," celebrating it for decades as a symbol of open source strength, speed, ...

Rapid7, Inc. has announced the launch of Active Patching, an automated patching and remediation solution integrated into its Exposure Command platform, designed to enhance security for IT teams. As ...

Keeping systems secure without jeopardizing reliability, productivity or customer trust is a high-stakes responsibility for IT teams. Reactive or ad hoc patching can unintentionally increase risk by ...

COMMENTARY--Worms and viruses often target specific vulnerabilities in common software. But what if the terms were reversed? Rather than attacking the vulnerability of software for malicious purposes, ...

In the wake of a widespread Internet worm, Microsoft Thursday said it is weighing options to get more users to secure their computers, including automatically applying security patches to PCs remotely ...

Staying current with vendor security alerts, assessing the risk that these vulnerabilities pose to your business and testing and applying software patches to close these holes are onerous tasks that ...