"NIST and Microsoft Partner to Improve Enterprise Patching Strategies"

Microsoft and the U.S. NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) will team up to help enterprises improve their security patch management strategies. Better patching strategies could have reduced the impact of WannaCry and NotPetya. Following these attacks, Microsoft looked into the challenges faced by customers in regard to security patches. The analysis of these challenges further emphasized the importance of establishing better industry guidance and standards for enterprise patch management. The partnership between Microsoft and the NCCoE will be in support of developing common enterprise management reference architectures, validating implementation instructions in the NCCoE lab, and more. This article continues to discuss the joint project and the importance of improving enterprise patching strategies. 

Security Week reports "NIST and Microsoft Partner to Improve Enterprise Patching Strategies"