3 rd -Party Evidence Total Cost of Security Patch Management The average time required to successfully deploy critical patches to Microsoft PCs is 56% lower than the equivalent OSS PCs The average cost to successfully deploy a patch to a single Microsoft system is lower than deployment to an equivalent OSS system: The average annual cost to patch a single Microsoft system is 14% lower than patching the equivalent OSS system There is also evidence to support the hypothesis that the patching of many OSS systems is being neglected.
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