Basic security hygiene, such as patching and updates are time-consuming and never-ending for IT security personnel.
“It’s no shocker that patching causes a lot of fatigue and anxiety,” says Sean Frazier, Advisory CISO at Cisco. “Many organizations have a long tail of technology, a lot of legacy to maintain, while also constantly deploying new technologies. Both the old and the new must be patched and updated. Sometimes that requires different skill sets or a different time cycle, but it’s all additive. The patching problem never gets less, it’s always more.”
And yet, the consequences of not conducting basic security hygiene such as patching and updates can be costly, according to the Cisco 2020 CISO Benchmark Study:
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