What Does Patch Management Do?

Cam Wood07 Apr, 2026Business

That is the direct answer. But the gap between that definition and a well-functioning enterprise programme is where most organisations lose ground. The term 'patch management' is used to describe everything from an IT administrator manually applying Windows updates on a Tuesday afternoon, to a fully automated, intelligence-driven remediation workflow protecting 10,000 endpoints in real time. The functions are the same. The capability gap between them is enormous.