Patches and Updates. When they go wrong…

I am always pushing the necessity of keeping up with patches and updates – they are everyone’s essential step for good cyber security.

However here is the warning tale for when things go wrong at the vendor end:

HP rushes to fix bricked printers after faulty firmware update (bleepingcomputer.com)

When patches and updates go wrong

This is where your business continuity plan comes into play.

You did plan for a printer outage? If you didn’t then the printer could not have been an important part of your operation – so not a problem.

You do not have a plan, not an incident response or a business continuity plan?

Further Reading

Business Continuity Planning

Incident Response Training