{"id":1703,"date":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otava.test\/the-sum-of-all-fears-from-vulnerability-to-exploit-the-importance-of-patch-management\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T00:00:00","slug":"the-sum-of-all-fears-from-vulnerability-to-exploit-the-importance-of-patch-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/the-sum-of-all-fears-from-vulnerability-to-exploit-the-importance-of-patch-management\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sum of All Fears: From Vulnerability to Exploit, the Importance of Patch Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is patch management so important? If your servers aren\u2019t updated and managed properly, your data and applications are left vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves and other malicious attacks against your systems.<\/p>\n

And when it comes to sensitive data and national industry compliance standards, such as HIPAA<\/a> and PCI DSS compliance<\/a>, your company can\u2019t afford to suffer a data breach or theft, as the fines and estimated financial loss per data breach record continues to rise each year.<\/p>\n