Microsoft’s 974 patches in September: The troubling trend for vulnerability management For most IT teams, Patch Tuesday was a monthly chore with a familiar shape. Microsoft published its fixes, security sorted them by severity, and ops pushed them through testing and out to machines. The volume shifted, but it stayed within a range you could plan staffing around.
974 patches in one Tuesday. 2026 has already doubled the worst year on record, with a quarter still to go.
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