The Return on Investment (ROI) of Automated Patch Management

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Organizations acknowledge the need to have a formal patch management strategy and solution. Furthermore they clearly recognize that the demands in this area are escalating due to the proliferation of new vulnerabilities and the rapid emergence of associated threats.

However, IT and security personnel inevitably need to provide more than just their intuition to justify such an investment. This paper is intended to address this necessity by enumerating the cost savings and other associated benefits of automated patch management. Ultimately it will be demonstrated that, relative to a manual approach, an automated solution can reduce the annual cost of patching from $222 to $40 per computer - resulting in an expected savings of over $180,000 per year for an organization with 1000 computers.

Vendor:
PatchLink Corporation
Posted:
Feb 8, 2021
Published:
Sep 1, 2006
Format:
PDF
Type:
White Paper
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