Patching continues to be overly complex, cumbersome and time-consuming, trends that are likely to persist as remote work increases the complexity and scale of patch management. And that’s a major security risk.
This was the central conclusion drawn from an Ivanti survey of more than 500 enterprise IT and security professionals across North America and EMEA, which found organizations are struggling with attack surface risk and ways to accelerate patching and other remediation actions.
Today’s work environments are no longer limited to a contained space where IT-controlled PC workstations are the center of productivity, with organizations nowadays more distributed than ever before, leading to larger attack surfaces. That’s not exactly surprising—but the scale of the problem certainly was.
“We expected to see IT professionals say that patching is overly complex and time-consuming, but seeing 71% say that was somewhat surprising,” said Srinivas Mukkamala, senior vice president of security products at Ivanti. “I think what was more surprising was that 61% of the IT and security professionals surveyed said that they receive requests from line-of-business owners to…
