Patch Management for SMEs: How to Plan Security Updates
A practical SME guide to tracking, prioritising, testing and verifying security updates for servers, computers, network devices and applications.
Talha Naci Özen
Server and Network Specialist, ÇAP Teknoloji. Works on web and server infrastructure at ÇAP Teknoloji. Key areas of work include corporate website development, server deployment and security hardening, corporate email infrastructure, backups and the management of hosting services.
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