It boils down to providing protection for databases during a crucial period of time. Patches are regularly issued by database vendors to address known vulnerabilities in their DBMS software. But for a variety of reasons, enterprises are not always able to install those patches in a timely manner; often, they are not installed at all. Yet, once the patch is released, hackers know about the weakness, and can exploit systems that are not yet patched, gaining access to sensitive records. That’s where vPatch comes in. It gives organizations a reliable way to protect their databases and bridge the security gap that exists between the issuance of vendor patch updates and the actual installation of those patches.

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