Disrupt Patching
Security
financial services
May 26, 2017· 1 min read

Disrupt Patching

Opinion

Patching shouldn’t be so hard.

Patching shouldn’t be so hard.

And yet 200,000 or more Windows machines were infected with WannaCry 2 months after Microsoft released a patch.

We look at patching the same today as when I started in IT 20 years ago. Have we not learned from our mistakes?

I challenge the next generation of entrepreneurs looking for an industry or niche to disrupt to tackle the boring but highly broken art of patching.

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