Security bosses feel patch pain

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A survey to be released today cites patch management as the No. 1 concern of chief information security officers in the federal government.

The survey, conduced by O'Keeffe & Co. for Intelligent Decisions, a federal systems integrator, highlights the day-to-day concerns of federal CISO's and the effects that the Federal Information Security Management Act has had on them professionally.

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