Sam has completed patching of a critical vulnerability. What step is often performed next to ensure that the patching occurred properly?

Organizations often immediately rescan a system after patching to ensure that the patching worked. While this isn’t an absolutely certain means of validating the patch, it helps to quickly ensure that patching was effective across many machines. Noting false positives may occur if the patch was successful, but systems continue to show as vulnerable. Rebooting may be done but doesn’t necessarily validate the patching installation’s success, and performing an audit may be done but is a less common next step.