Software is complicated – it will have bugs and some of those bugs may have security issues. How you deal with this situation is a key part of your organisation’s cyber security plan. Why? If you are a regular reader here, you would have read about the several zero-day security …
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November Edition
It is the second Tuesday of the month that means 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 …
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October Edition
It is the second Tuesday of the month that means 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 …
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Writing software is hard
Writing code for today’s sophisticated software is hard and no matter how careful the vendors are, how many beta and alpha testers they have, errors will always slip through. If those errors compromise the user’s security, you can bet a threat actor will discover them and exploit them. It is …
It was not us!
This week I have been discussing user and systems monitoring with a client’s senior management team. Their immediate response was that they did not want to spy on their staff as they trusted them – and to be fair they are appear to be a friendly supportive organisation. However my …