November 2019 Patch Tuesday Forecast: Out with the old, in with the new
There are only two more Patch Tuesday’s before the new year, but we already have something new to experience this November. Windows 10 version 1909, named the November 2019 …
Keeping up with the evolving ransomware security landscape
Cybercrime is ever-evolving, and is consistently becoming more effective and damaging. While the range of attack vectors available to malicious actors are vast, ransomware …
Most IT pros still haven’t migrated all their users to Windows 10
59% of IT professionals report that they still haven’t migrated all their users to Windows 10, despite the imminent end of regular support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, …
October 2019 Patch Tuesday: A small batch of updates from Microsoft, none from Adobe
As predicted by Ivanti’s Chris Goettl, October 2019 Patch Tuesday came with a relatively small number of Microsoft updates and, curiously enough, with no security …
October 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Be sure to apply service stack updates
School is back in session across most of the world, and here in the United States most students look forward to a school holiday called ‘fall break.’ While we never have a …
Security and compliance gaps of ineffective employee onboarding and offboarding
There are significant gaps in the compliant management of employee resources throughout the employment lifecycle. Just 15% of employees have all the resources they require to …
September 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Microsoft security update will be complete
Microsoft began an aggressive six-month campaign in March of this year to switch the digital signature on all operating system and product updates from using Secure Hash …
August 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Expect updates from Adobe, stay current on other updates
Microsoft released details on August 6 regarding another variant of the Spectre Variant 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125). The vulnerability …
July Patch Tuesday forecast: Rules are changing for companies with custom applications
Every month I discuss the regular patches released for operating system or applications, but today I want to focus on some of the development components that are often …
June Patch Tuesday forecast: Apply updates before BlueKeep hits the streets
Can you believe it is June already? Summer is rapidly approaching, but it’s been slow to warm up our temperatures here in the US. I can’t say the same thing about the …
May 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Latest OS updates impact performance
Let’s start off the May forecast with a look back at April. For customers running specific endpoint security products, there were some issues with applying April OS updates. …
April Patch Tuesday Forecast: Be aware of end-of-service issues and browser exploits
April Patch Tuesday is nearly here with two significant topics of concern. The first relates to end-of-service milestones and the second issue is browser exploits. Let’s start …