Apple @ Work: The three prongs of software updates in the AI era

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Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. For my entire IT career, software updates have operated on a predictable schedule. IT administrators have been conditioned to build workflows around quarterly point releases or monthly patching cycles (Patch Tuesday).

As AI tools become very proficient at automatically discovering software vulnerabilities, threat actors are moving faster than ever before. With that being said, I very much miss 18th-month macOS/OS X releases. We are rapidly entering an era in which software updates will look less like traditional operating system updates and more like continuous cloud updates.

To survive this shift, IT teams must understand the three prongs of modern patch management. Apple @ Work: The three prongs of software updates in the AI era.

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