May 2020

Why WSUS and Remote Work are Incompatible Securing Remote Devices for COVID-19 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to stretch across the globe, many organizations are protecting their employees and communities by maintaining a remote workforce, creating an entirely different health...

Whitepaper: Avoiding Patch Doomsday Patch Management is More Critical than Ever IT problems of any kind can have a negative impact on business success. At the same time, it can be shocking to learn that unpatched operating systems and application...

How Vulnerability Scanners Help Work From Home What is a Vulnerability Scanner? Vulnerability scanners scan a computer and raise an alert if they discover any vulnerabilities that malicious hackers could use to gain access to any computer you have connected...

The Ultimate Strategy for Server Patching Patching for Servers Remediating server environments is crucially important to secure the environment from internal and external attacks as well as ensure stability and performance. Downtime, duration, and frequency are key factors for patching...

5 Biggest Mistakes In Patch Management 1. Putting Off Patching There is no question: you need to patch. Every software product has bugs and many have security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, people around the world, including security services are trying to find...

Incomplete Patch for Reverse RDP Attacks Leaves Clients Vulnerable RDP Vulnerabilities Continue to Be Exploited Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has been used for over a decade to provide Windows client PCs and devices to remotely access and administer remote computers....

U.S. Government Shares Most Exploited Vulnerabilities Since 2016 CISA & FBI Want Organizations to Prioritize Patching The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government have provided a technical guidance to...

Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday Addresses 111 Vulnerabilities May Patch Tuesday Has Arrived Microsoft have released 111 patches today, the third largest release of 2020. So far this year, there have been 487 patches released and we are only in May....

Celebrity Personal Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack Ransomware Attacks Celebrity Law Firm Stars—they’re just like us. Unfortunately, that means they can get hit with ransomware too. Law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks has experienced a ransomware attack that involved...

The True Cost of DoS Attacks A Denial of Service (DoS) attack can seriously derail any business with a digital presence. These attacks are still prevalent in 2020 and the cost is rapidly rising. Even a small company could lose...