With network device vulnerabilities being discovered all the time, should you be monitoring patch management yourself, or is outsourcing the best option? If the IT industry was subject to the same restrictions as the car industry, the number of equipment recalls would be so huge that many companies would go out of business. Bugs are an inevitable problem in a sector where companies are driven by shareholders to rush out equipment before it is ready. From a security perspective, this presents users with a huge problem. Empirical evidence suggests that the average device - whether it is a perimeter network resource such as a firewall or router, or a core device such as a server - has more holes in it than a piece of Gruyere.
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