Microsoft Patch Tuesday

As promised – a reminder of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday…

This morning, our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues or absconders!

Here is Microsoft’s detailed page on Patch Tuesday for September 2023:

September 2023 Security Updates – Release Notes – Security Update Guide – Microsoft

Cyber security highlights

Among the 59 issues fixed there are patches for two actively exploited zero-day flaws. So make sure the updating is done.

Here is a more digestible report on Patch Tuesday, by Lawrence Abrams on Bleeping Computer:

Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 2 zero-days, 59 flaws (bleepingcomputer.com)

Why is Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Important?

Patching and updates are an important step in any cyber security plan – you and you team have to get them done – read about that here:

How Microsoft Patch Tuesday can help your cyber security planning

and here:

Don’t Skip That Restart | Octagon Technology

If you’d like our team to check that the updates are being done, have a look here.

Further Reading

IT Monitoring

The Zero-day Threat – What is it?