79. Patch Compliance: Why Hybrid and Digital are Developing this Field

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cyber Security Inside</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Tom and Camille dive into managing and securing patch updates with Gabe Frost, Group Project Manager at Microsoft. The conversation covers:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  How conversations about patches and updates have changed over the past few years as we have become increasingly digital and hybrid.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  How the wide variety of hardware and software combinations makes it difficult to predict how a patch will run.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  New technology that is being developed to collect information to make patches and updates work in such a diverse landscape.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  How to manage risk and security when sending an update to large numbers of people.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">... and more. Don’t miss it!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views and opinions expressed are those of the guests and author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Intel Corporation.</span></em></p> <p><br /> <br /></p> <p><strong>Here are some key takeaways:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  With how the world has changed to become so much more digital and so much more hybrid over the past few years, thinking about patches and updates has changed significantly. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  There are now so many different combinations of hardware and software that it is nearly impossible to know everything that could happen and everything that might need to be built into updates. This is why many people in the industry, including Microsoft, are focusing so much on analytics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  Because there are so many softwares interacting with each other, there is no way to predict all the possible scenarios. S