According to NIST, Enterprise Patch Management is a critical and necessary cost of doing business…but what is it exactly? NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) published a report this week titled Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Planning: Preventive Maintenance for Technology. This document had not been updated in nearly 10 years, but this recent […]
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Cyber attacks are devastating to the finances and operations of an organization, and now they have the possibility to cause loss of human life. This week, a cyber gang operating out of Eastern Europe carried out an attack on three U.S. hospitals, causing patient health services to be affected and ambulances having to be transferred
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The vulnerability, found by Israeli Security Firm Check Point, resides in Microsoft’s domain name system protocol (DNS). The bug handles data used for key exchange in DNSSEC – the secure version of Windows DNS. Fortunately, Microsoft has already released a fix for the bug – which has been termed SigRed. Check Point has stated that
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Patching is a crucial component of maintaining network stability and security, and not doing so leaves you at a significant risk of being a victim of ransomware. Unfortunately, many IT departments struggle to patch effectively, or in some cases completely ignore it. During patching, issues such as deployment failures, application incompatibilities, outages, and reboot failures
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There are many steps an organization must follow to maintain network security, the first and most important starts with the decisions of the company executives. It is their responsibility to set the standard for their organization’s non-physical and physical security controls. Excuses such as; the firm is too small, IT should manage it, network security
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What is software patching? Patching is essentially when a software developer modifies an existing application to remove any bugs, errors, or vulnerabilities. It’s usually the software developer or an end-user that discovers most coding holes. However, in many cases, a cybercriminal stumbles upon a vulnerability and uses it to their advantage. Don’t mistake software patching
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Most firms find out about the presence of cyber attackers only after they pull the trigger on their nasty plans, usually ransomware. I see a lot of ransomware victims comment that there is “no evidence any data was infiltrated” when news of the breach becomes public. The truth is, these firms have no idea whether
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Written by Oli Thordarson, CEO of Patchworx. Oli shares his thoughts on a recent article, The Biggest Beneficiaries of the Bitcoin Ransomware Boom are Not Hackers, regarding ransomware and cyber insurance, and why the buyers of cyber insurance are getting it all wrong. Cyber insurance should not be insurance for the negligence of basic cyber
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When it comes to software patching, some industries are simply more challenged than others. This is especially true for the healthcare sector. All industries struggle to adequately apply critical software security updates, or “patch” their computing environments. However, healthcare has unique challenges that go beyond typical patch management barriers. Why is this? Healthcare, like most
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The effects of ransomware are always ugly. Sometimes companies are forced to pay astronomical ransoms via bitcoin, other times too few, companies are able to recover from backups. Unfortunately, on way too many occasions the company is forced to close its doors forever. Such is the case with Wood Ranch Medical in California, who had
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