Microsoft’s July patches fix over 600 flaws, shattering last month’s record
THE SO WHAT
Shipping 620+ fixes in a month is a reminder that your real risk surface is the patch backlog, not the latest zero-day headline. Operators should treat Patch Tuesday as an operational event — with explicit SLOs and ownership — not an ad hoc IT chore.
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