Why Patching Everything Fails  Are You Patching More But Feeling
Less Secure?  Hundreds of millions of records have been stolen
in recent corporate data loss incidents  All of these
compromised networks had patching programs in place. Yet every
one of them fell victim to a KNOWN vulnerability, meaning that
the weaknesses that hackers used were well described and
discussed in the public domain and that, in theory, patches or
work arounds existed.  The obvious lesson is that automated
patching solutions are not keeping up. Apparently neither were
the enterprise grade firewalls, antivirus programs and IPS/IDS
programs these major corporations had in place.  Patching
Strengths and Weaknesses  Patching is vital. However, it has its
costs and as the frequency of patch publication increases, a
point may be reached where existing resources are not enough to
keep up.  For example, Microsoft alone releases over 300 patches
a year. A typical organization needs less than 30. Installing
patches just because they were publ