End-of-Life/End-of-Support Dates for IT Hardware and Software Are Fragmented Across Vendor Portals
IT and security teams struggle to track end-of-life and end-of-support dates for hardware and software because the data is scattered across dozens of vendor portals, often behind logins, with inconsistent definitions of 'end of life' between vendors and ambiguous product-model naming collisions across manufacturers. Teams risk operating unsupported, unpatched equipment without realizing it until an incident occurs.
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