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Patch management is one of the oldest and most well-known IT and security tasks, but it remains a bane of admins' existence. From buggy patches and time-consuming processes to fears of business downtime and increased complexity due to remote workers, patch management isn't the easiest task for IT and security professionals.

Yet it is a constant worry.

Fifty-four percent of Ponemon Institute's "2024 State of Cyber Risk in the Age of AI" respondents cited unpatched vulnerabilities as the top cyber-risk at their organization. And it's no surprise why -- as of the writing of this article, NIST's National Vulnerability Database has received an average of 136 new CVEs a day this year.

While not all vulnerabilities are critical, teams must be aware of them. Here are three that made the news this week.