Let’s paint a picture: 

You’re sitting there working on a Friday and a little “Hey you’re due for software updates!” reminder pops up on your computer. And, just like every time it’s happened this week already, you click “Ignore” – you’ll do it next week.

Whether you meant to or not, in skipping this or any patch you automatically put yourself and your organization’s data at a major, unnecessary risk for a potential breach. Just ask Equifax, who skipped a full patch on its systems in 2017, a decision that caused one of the biggest data breaches in the history of the Internet.