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 …
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – an excellent source for keeping up with cyber security vulnerabilities and updates – has issued advisories for a number of products: VMware Releases Security Updates for Aria Operations for Networks | CISA Juniper Networks Releases Security Advisory for Junos OS …
…let the UK Government scrutinise your security patches before you are allowed to publish them to your vulnerable customers! Sounds like a bad dream. Read on. Security Patches are Important Alarm surrounds a clause in the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act. According to the proposed legislation, tech firms will be mandated …
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Whilst I have been away my team have been keeping up with security advisories that have impacted our clients. The vendors are the primary sources for my team but they also use the US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) alerts and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Let’s catch …
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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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