Why Traditional Approaches to Patch Management Fail in the Era of SaaS Sprawl and BYOD
Aug 18, 2025
Device and software vulnerabilities pose an increasing risk to modern security. However, patch management is an infamously difficult (and downright Sisyphean) task for IT and security teams, who are faced with an ever-growing list of CVEs to remediate. This task was difficult enough in the days of on-premise environments, but a modern distributed workforce has to contend with all the users, devices, and applications that may exist outside the purview of traditional security solutions, like MDM. Overall, with the ever-growing number of CVEs and the ever-growing sprawl of shadow IT, patch management has become both more urgent and more daunting than ever. IT and security teams need to adopt zero trust methods to ensure that only healthy and patched devices are able to access their critical systems. With the help of SaaS management and employee-remediation tactics, teams can do even more to improve efficacy and support for their company-wide patch management programs. French philo...