Why Patching Should Be a System, Not a Habit Almost no one argues against patching. Every leader I talk to already knows that unpatched systems are how a large share of preventable incidents begin. Awareness has never been the problem. Consistency is. Manual patching depends on someone remembering to do it, having the time to do it, and doing it the same way every month. That's three separate points of failure, and they tend to fail quietly, on the busy weeks, which are exactly the weeks an...















