Why Patches Fail
Trackd Team
April 17, 2024
In this blog series, we’ll look at some of the more mundane – albeit common and operationally-significant – reasons patches fail.
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In this blog series, we’ll look at some of the more mundane – albeit common and operationally-significant – reasons patches fail.
The only thing better than learning from your own mistakes is learning from the mistakes of others. At trackd, we have come up with a radically simple but elegant solution to help organizations differentiate between
At trackd, our free users are essential to our business plan; we literally can’t deliver the unique solution we’ve designed without them.
It’s often paid lip service to (or worse, intentionally neglected), and rarely appreciated, but there’s an operational cost to be paid for security. Security controls create inefficiencies, and those security measures can also introduce operational
The vulnerability management market answers every question a practitioner or cybersecurity professional could want answered…except the only one that matters: will this patch break my shit.
In today’s threat landscape, you don’t have to be a high-profile private or public organization to be targeted. You don’t have to be storing highly valuable technology IP or high-value health records, and you don’t
It’s time for vulnerability management technology innovators to spend less time identifying and reporting on vulnerabilities, and more time building tools to help IT teams fix them more efficiently…and without their fingers constantly crossed.
It probably makes sense to take the hyperventilating stories of cutting-edge attack vectors with a grain of salt. There will come a day when the primary means of initial penetration become obsolete or are abandoned
The only thing that matters is whether the person responsible for product security is able to convince all stakeholders to care about the risks associated with the absence of secure software development practices or not.
As a cyber security community, we need to re-think our commitment to – and investment in – compliance. Can we all agree it’s not working? If successful breaches were confined to organizations that either didn’t
The psychological source of this particular patch failure, of course, is the omnipresent fear that applying patches will result in a service disruption that will, at a minimum, make for a miserable few hours for IT practitioners, and could result in more serious repercussions. trackd was founded to counter exactly this rational, but largely anachronistic, fear.
Some minor disruptions have been reported, mainly with Fortinet FSSO, two reports of MSFT Key Distribution Center service failing to start causing authorization failures, and AuthLite breaking if not running 2.15.16 before installing.
Patch management is not just a best practice; it is an essential aspect of MSP operations. Failing to regularly patch systems and applications can leave your clients vulnerable to cyberattacks, data breaches, and system failures.
Leaving vulnerabilities unpatched can expose organizations to significant risks. Attackers actively search for known vulnerabilities to exploit, and exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities is a common technique. Such attacks can result in data breaches, financial losses, reputational damage, and legal liabilities.
In this blog series, we’ll look at some of the more mundane – albeit common and operationally-significant – reasons patches fail.
The only thing better than learning from your own mistakes is learning from the mistakes of others. At trackd, we have come up with a radically simple but elegant solution to help organizations differentiate between the 98% of patches that are necessary and safe, and the 2% that will have your clients calling you on the weekends.
At trackd, our free users are essential to our business plan; we literally can’t deliver the unique solution we’ve designed without them.
It’s often paid lip service to (or worse, intentionally neglected), and rarely appreciated, but there’s an operational cost to be paid for security. Security controls create inefficiencies, and those security measures can also introduce operational risk.
The vulnerability management market answers every question a practitioner or cybersecurity professional could want answered…except the only one that matters: will this patch break my shit.
In today’s threat landscape, you don’t have to be a high-profile private or public organization to be targeted. You don’t have to be storing highly valuable technology IP or high-value health records, and you don’t have to piss off a hacktivist group with a bone to pick. You simply have to have an unpatched vulnerability that pops up on a list delivered to a threat actor after indiscriminately scanning the internet.
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Copyright © 2022-2024 trackd, inc.
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