Security leaders often assume patching failures stem from technical limitations. In reality, many of the most disruptive patching delays originate from coordination breakdowns across teams, tools, and timelines.
The process of patch management in modern healthcare is often met with a variety of obstacles. From budget constraints, to IT teams being overworked and understaffed, to limited detection capabilities and alert fatigue, security teams often do not have the resources to take on such a time-consuming task.
There’s an on-going battle between competing priorities being waged every day in enterprises globally, and it’s been going on for decades. Cyber security teams are concerned with unpatched vulnerabilities and the breaches they risk, while IT professionals are driven by operational availability, the lack of which jeopardizes the business’ ability to operate.
How can organizations run patch management effectively while implementing new collaboration and technologies to make remote working easier for their employees?
