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A while ago Jim was asked to defect write some freelance articles for Tom's Hardware. His first series of articles was about patch management in the enterprise, a subject that is near and dear to many of you, I'm sure.

For a lot of large IT organizations, patch management is still a relatively new concept. Many hadn't even contemplated a patching strategy until August 2003, when the MS Blaster worm ravaged the systems of the unprepared. Blaster utilized an RPC (remote procedure call) vulnerability in Windows systems, allowing it to spread like wildfire - it infected over eight million PCs worldwide. This crippled many organizations for weeks, while service packs and hotfixes were quickly tested and applied, often manually.

Part 1:
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051010/index.html

Part 2:
http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051018/index.html

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#38196 Posted on: 10/20/2005 10:14 PM Very good read Jim. I'm going to pass these articles along to my associates; see if we can work a patch management system into the dental offices we configure. Obviously isn't enterprise size, but the idea and process should be similar. The most dangerous people are the ones who know "a little" about computers - and I think I'm one of them. JohnCharette.com

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