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October 30, 2026 | 9 min

Patch Management Process: A Monthly Cycle You Can Run, With Deadlines and a Rollback Plan

A step-by-step monthly patch management process: inventory, test ring, phased rollout, severity deadlines to tune, third-party software list and rollback plan.