Designing a distributed patch management security system

Over the last 10 years, the Internet has been the place of tremendous information security issues and vulnerabilities; in particular, the ability to patch systems very quickly has become a necessary requirement in order to provide a safe operating environment for all organizations. At the same time, the fast proliferation of systems and their respective vulnerabilities have become almost unmanageable for IT departments to withstand and secure according to the patch release schedules established by IT software vendors. This research reveals the fundamental limitations of the current patch management design systems, explores a possible solution, and investigates the practical development of a new approach for patch distribution. We will start by explaining the problem, followed by a review of the current state of affairs, determinant factors used to develop our methodology, and, finally, our proposed solution.