Who is Vodacom? Vodacom is a leading African communications company providing a wide range of services, including mobile voice, messaging, data, fi- nancial, and converged services to 116 million customers. Vodacom is majority owned by Vodafone, one of the world’s largest commu- nications companies by revenue. Manual Vulnerability Patching Costs $200,000 Each Month A large corporation such as Vodacom will typi- cally have a diverse IT environment that en- compasses different operating systems. All of these will have backends to applications, both home-grown and commercial, and databases. The architecture will likely be organized in clus- ters with high availability (HA) failover capability for disaster recovery purposes and to minimize impact of outages. Keeping an environment

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