• October 14, 2019

    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...

  • September 3, 2019

    CVE and CVSS: Explained Although many IT managers are familiar with these terms, CVE and CVSS are some of the most commonly misunderstood aspects of patching today. These two different terminologies are synonymous with operating system, software vulnerabilities, and patching....

  • April 20, 2015

    In this month’s patch updates from Microsoft there’s a total of 11 bulletins - four Critical and seven Important - covering 26 separate vulnerabilities. "We’re going to look at each of the four Critical updates in turn", says Robert Brown,...

  • February 24, 2015

    MSPs have the opportunity to position themselves as the authority on patch management for their customers, both in terms of making the best use of time available and patch prioritization. Downtime. One word to strike fear into the hearts of even...

  • February 12, 2015

    This month’s Patch Tuesday is a bit of an interesting one... MS15-011 affects all supported editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT, Windows 8.1,...