Companies expecting a new patch management tool from Microsoft this summer will have to wait a little longer. Microsoft said Tuesday that Windows Update Services, a new tool designed to let system ...

Microsoft offers some powerful patch management tools for free, but they are not designed to scale to very large corporations. SMS has the ability to support a large organization, but it is a bit ...

In partnership with security analyst Rich Mogull (right), Microsoft is set to roll out a new research project to help businesses compute the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing ...

Microsoft will ship on Sept. 2 the first beta of a software installer that is one key piece in a forthcoming overhaul of the company’s patch management architecture.

Patch management took center stage earlier this year following the SQL Slammer worm, which spread quickly by exploiting a known vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Microsoft had released a ...

Overview On August 13, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the August Security Update patch, which fixed 111 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, ...