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APPLICATIONS (GOOGLE CHROME, MICROSOFT EDGE BROWSER AND THUNDERBIRD MAIL APPLICATION) How does each of them address patch management? Visit their Web sites to determine facilities they have to alert users to new vulnerabilities. Then look at three competing products (for example, if you are examining Microsoft Office, then look at OpenOffice) and evaluate their patch management system. What did you discover? Are the patch management systems adequate? During your research, be sure to answer the following questions

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Answer 1

Considering the Microsoft Products (edge, office, they follow ten things for patch management as below.
1) At Microsoft, they consistently recommend us to view service packs as the primary vehicle for security maintenance and look at security updates as something that augments service packs.
2) THey direcrly relates the role of service packs should be the role of the Microsoft Product Support Lifecycle in your patch management strategy
3) Microsoft Security Bulletins serve to make us aware that security updates are available for specific Microsoft products.
Another goal of the bulletins is to help us with understanding issues in the security bulletin
4) Security Bulletin pertains to mitigating factors for each vulnerability addressed in that bulletin
50 As part of the process of investigating reports of vulnerabilities, Microsoft tries to identify workarounds
that are applicable to help protect against attempts to exploit the vulnerabilities that are being addressed by the security update
6) When an issue occurs after the application of a security update,that issue is documented in a Knowledge Base article by our Product Support Services.
7)Testing security updates before deployment is an industry-recognized best practice.
8)Important thing to remember is that Microsoft provides no-charge support for issues related to security updates
9)Detection and deployment of security updates is a critical part of the patch management process.
10) Information is entered into the bulletin after it has been verified for accuracy

The above points are pretty good to explain that patch management system is sufficient to tackle any kind of issues related to them .