Automox Adds Automation to Patching, Vuln Management
Automox’s Paul Zimski joins Dark Reading’s Terry Sweeney at Dark Reading News Desk during RSA Conference to talk about automated patch …
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Partial Patching Still Provides Strong Protection Against APTs
Organizations that deploy updates only after a vulnerability is disclosed apply far fewer updates and do so at a lower cost than those that …
The Great Security Debate: Is Patching Useless?
“I’ve been in this game for a long time,” security expert Dave Aitel said, prefacing a counter-intuitive argument that patching …
Microsoft Simplifies Security Patching Process for Exchange Server
Delivering hotfixes and system updates separately will allow manual patching without requiring elevated permissions, Microsoft …
Which Hole to Plug First? Solving Chronic Vulnerability Patching Overload
According to folklore, witches were able to sail in a sieve, a strainer with holes in the bottom. Unfortunately, witches don’t work in …
CVSS 9.9-Rated Samba Bug Requires Immediate Patching
A critical vulnerability in a popular open-source networking protocol could allow attackers to execute code with root privileges unless …
Patching the CentOS 8 Encryption Bug is Urgent – What Are Your Plans?
There are three things you can be sure of in life: death, taxes – and new …
When Patching Security Flaws, Smarter Trumps Faster
Just turning the patch dial to “high” is not enough, and if your company is using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to …
Serious Security: OpenSSL fixes “error conflation” bugs – how mixing up mistakes can lead to trouble
Amidst the ongoing brouhaha created by the apparently omnipresent Log4Shell insecurity featuresecurity vulnerability, it’s easy to lose …
Lack of Patching Leaves 300,000 Routers at Risk for Attack
A significant percentage of the 2 million consumer and small-business routers produced by a Latvian firm are vulnerable and being used by …
Patching takes 2.5 times longer when endpoints are remote
Action1 released a report based on the feedback from 491 IT professionals worldwide. The study explores how organizations patch and manage …
Why Database Patching Best Practice Just Doesn’t Work and How to Fix It
Patching really, really matters – patching is what keeps technology solutions from becoming like big blocks of Swiss cheese, with endless …
71% of Security Pros Find Patching to be Complex and Time Consuming, Ivanti Study Confirms
Challenges with lack of time and vulnerability and patching prioritization are putting organizations at increased risk of …
Patching Too Tortuous for IT Pros
Patching vulnerabilities is too labor intensive and convoluted a process for most IT security professionals, according to new research by …