Why Patch Management is Critical for Enterprise Security

Cam Wood15 Jan, 2026Business

£2.4M. That's the average annual cost organisations pay for poor patch management. Not from sophisticated zero-day attacks from preventable vulnerabilities with available patches. In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack infected 200,000+ computers across 150 countries, causing billions in damages. The vulnerability? Patched by Microsoft two months earlier. Organisations that applied the patch were protected. Those that didn't faced devastating consequences.