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The Price of Patching
Furnell SM, van Niekerk J, Clarke NL
Computer Fraud and Security, Issue 8, pp8-13, 2014
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Patching and software updates are now an unavoidable aspect of modern IT usage. Users are all too accustomed to seeing related messages appearing, and software providers seem to have no qualms about releasing them on a regular basis. However, this raises the question of whether it has become too routine an expectation, and whether it is realistic to believe that people will actually keep up with the patch status of their systems.

Furnell SM, van Niekerk J, Clarke NL