I love patches as part of a cyber security plan – but there is a problem!

Patches and Updates

If the patch is not effective or worse it breaks something else whilst fixing the vulnerability. This happened to Microsoft: Microsoft fixes Windows authentication woes • The Register But you still have to run those patches and updates as an unpatched system is a target for threat actors. Better to …

Google – “cybersecurity is one of the top issues facing the world today”

The quote is from an article by Royal Hansen, Vice President of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security, outlining how Google sees it’s role in making it a more secure world. Building a secure world (blog.google) I always have a seed of doubt when I read anything like this from …