Microsoft researchers post a paper that offers an interesting solution to the patch management problem. The paper suggests that epidemiological, worm-like solutions might be used to automatically make security updates to users’ machines without the user’s involvement. The proposal might go a long way toward solving IT departments’ ongoing challenge of patching and re-patching machines as new vulnerabilities are found. There’s only one problem, according to critics: It’s dangerous. A worm is no tool for any rational network administrator, regardless of intent.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/critics-microsoft-s-friendly-worm-is-a-dumb-idea