Software Flaws: Why Is Patching So Hard?

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights' latest monthly newsletter spotlights the risks posed to healthcare organizations by unpatched software flaws and the difficulties often involved with patching. But many of the insights apply to organizations in other sectors as well.Challenges range from difficulty in keeping up with vulnerabilities and quickly applying patching - if and when flaws are identified by vendors - to the complexity of applying patches on clinical systems that cannot easily be...