The GravityZone Patch Management Technical Brief explains that unpatched operating systems and applications create major security gaps, but frequent updates, production risks, software inventory tracking, time-zone scheduling, and bandwidth constraints make patching difficult for security teams. GravityZone Patch Management addresses this with integrated Windows and Linux OS and application patching, scheduled scans that build a patch inventory, and “maintenance windows” to automate scans and installs without disrupting productivity. It supports searching and sorting patches by KB, CVE, bulletin ID, severity, and vendor, enables selectively deploying or ignoring problematic updates, and can use a patch caching server to reduce bandwidth and speed distribution, with fallback to vendor sites

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