Palo Alto Networks | Securing the Unpatchable in Financial Services | White Paper 1 SECURING THE UNPATCHABLE IN FINANCIAL SERVICES How to Prevent Breaches on Financial Sector Endpoints When Patching Is Not an Option There are no flawless software systems or applications. When flaws result in security vulnerabilities, threat actors exploit them to compromise those systems and applications – and by extension, the endpoints on which they reside. Although software vendors issue patches to remediate flaws, many financial institutions do not apply all available patches to their production environments for various reasons. In addition, when systems or applications reach their end-of-support, they no longer receive any software patches from their vendors, leaving security vulnerabilitie

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