October 2019

Why Cybersecurity is a Challenge for Highly Distributed Enterprises There is no longer any doubt that one of the major challenges for enterprises of all sizes as we enter the ‘20s is information and network security. Simply put, “enterprises have...

Microsoft Warns Windows 10 1803 Users to Upgrade Support for Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1803 (April 2018 Update), on consumer-based licenses, will be ending in just a few weeks. Microsoft has already started recommending an update to all end-users before...

Microsoft Announces Critical Security Update For All Windows 10 Users After the release of Windows 10 version 1903 (May 2019 Update), Microsoft has officially announced the introduction of a new Tamper Protection feature for its Microsoft Defender Antivirus service. Tamper...

Microsoft Releases Patch to Address Active Exploit After learning about it from Google, Microsoft has moved to fix CVE-2018-8653. This flaw in Internet Explorer is being actively exploited in the wild. According to the Microsoft release, this remote code execution...

Windows 7 Post-Retirement: Patches for a Price Microsoft is now allowing Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) to be available to any business. The major move ensures that any business user who is unable to (or unwilling to) migrate to...

Syxsense Beats Industry Average with Outstanding Customer Support Satisfaction Results ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (October 10, 2019) – Verismic, a global leader in cloud-based IT management and security technology, has released its latest customer support satisfaction survey results, beating industry averages by achieving...

5 Lessons Learned from Deploying 100,000,000 Patches A History of Patching It was a cold December afternoon in 2008. A support customer, one of the largest retail outlets in the United Kingdom, was breached. The down-n-up virus, also called Conficker,...

Patch Tuesday: October Update Includes Sleeper Vulnerability Microsoft's October 2019 Patch Tuesday Fixes 59 Vulnerabilities Microsoft has released 59 updates for its monthly Patch Tuesday Update, much less than September’s release of 80 updates. However, that doesn’t mean you can be complacent—there...

The U.S. Government's Patch Management Problem The Ponemon Institute's 2018 study of enterprise security and vulnerability found that 57 percent of the organizations queried claimed a data breach had occurred in the past two years because of their failure to...

Still Relying on WSUS? Here’s Why You Can’t Microsoft's Patch Disaster Last week, Microsoft ordered users to immediately download an “emergency” out-of-band security patch meant to close up a security flaw in some versions of Internet Explorer that can be...