A Faster Horse
Today, those in vulnerability management often create development environments (aka sandboxes) to test whether or not new patches will cause disruptions on their networks…just like they’ve been doing for 3 decades. Which leads to only one conclusion: ARPA-H is funding an effort to build a faster horse.
Why Patches Fail. Episode 3: End of Life-ed (EOL)Software
…organizations deploying End of Life software were 3.7 times more likely to suffer a claim in 2022
The Ultimate Guide to Patch Management for MSPs
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.
How to Patch Vulnerabilities: A Comprehensive Guide
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.
Why Patches Fail
In this blog series, we’ll look at some of the more mundane – albeit common and operationally-significant – reasons patches fail.
MSP Patch Management: The Delicate Balance Between Operational Risk & Security Risk
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.
Providing Cybersecurity to the Underserved, and Building a Business by Doing So
At trackd, our free users are essential to our business plan; we literally can’t deliver the unique solution we’ve designed without them.
Why Vulnerability Remediation Teams Wish They Were All Zero Days
IT professionals endure a lot more criticism for causing downtime when patching than they do for patching too slowly, so their default state is to be exceptionally cautious while absorbing the cyber risk of exposed vulnerabilities.
Even ChatGPT “Thinks” Patching Vulnerabilities is the Best Way to Secure an Organization
You don’t need to be a Large Language AI model or cyber spy to conclude that diligent and regular vulnerability remediation is a foundational element of enterprise cyber defense. If you were to embark on a comprehensive security system design for your home, for example, you might consider alarms, video cameras, and even a guard dog, but you’d probably start by fixing the broken locks on your first floor windows. And that’s exactly the same thought process enterprises should adopt when defending themselves against an ever-expanding and sophisticated pool of attackers.
Server Patching
The primary new technology for server patching uses crowdsourced data on patches that have been applied to help guide remediation teams and highlight patches that have a history of disruption, and perhaps more valuably, those that have a history of safe deployment.
