Software patching is a tricky beast. CISOs are looking to patch management vendors to help mitigate their pain. Some vendors provide pure-play patch management software. Others make patching part of a larger suite of system or network management capabilities. Bigger vendors may be able to devote more resources to developing more robust offerings that can, for example, automate some of the testing process for corporate buyers. The biggest names in dedicated patch management tools are still small fish. Symantec’s late 2003 announcement of its acquisition of ON Technology.”]
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