Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Following on from yesterdays article about using obsolete kit – almost as bad is using kit that has not been patched. There is a good reason that many of my articles here on Smart Thinking are about patches and updates, it is the most powerful cyber security step you can …
Other vendors issue their monthly security and feature patches on or around Microsoft Patch Tuesday – it makes sense to get the updates all done together. The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – one of my go to cyber security sites – issues regular round-ups of the …
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Very. Regular vendor updates to patch software flaws that could be or are being exploited by threat actors – such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday – are essential to everyone’s cyber security. Google is going to issue updates for its Chrome browser weekly. Google to fight hackers with weekly Chrome security …
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 …
The NCSC in collaboration with allies from around the world have released a list of those cyber vulnerabilities that were the most exploited by threat actors last year. NCSC and allies reveal most common cyber vulnerabilities exploited in 2022 – NCSC There are two main trends in the report: Defend …
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