Austin Gadient is CTO & cofounder of Vali Cyber. Vali’s product ZeroLock protects hypervisors and Linux systems from cyber attacks. Many organizations are familiar with patching, the standard practice ...

Patch Tuesday is Microsoft’s monthly update day for fixing vulnerabilities. Learn its purpose, benefits, and how it enhances system security. On the second Tuesday of each month, Microsoft and other ...

Keeping systems secure without jeopardizing reliability, productivity or customer trust is a high-stakes responsibility for IT teams. Reactive or ad hoc patching can unintentionally increase risk by ...

Everyday tools like PDF readers, email clients, and archive utilities quietly define the real attack surface. Action1 explains how third-party software drift increases exploit risk and why consistent ...

Everyone wants the same outcome: protect their organization. So why do security and IT teams keep working against each other? The answer sits in patch management, where good intentions collide with ...

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Procrastinating about patching has ...

Every day you delay a patch is a day attackers gain the upper hand. Proactive defense starts with closing the doors they already know about. Security is evolving because attackers already have. The ...

Patching vulnerabilities is one of the most basic principles of cybersecurity — and one of the hardest to execute consistently and securely at scale. In today’s threat landscape, adversaries routinely ...

Rapid7, Inc. has announced the launch of Active Patching, an automated patching and remediation solution integrated into its Exposure Command platform, designed to enhance security for IT teams. As ...

Cyber security professionals tasked with vulnerability patch management and roll-out duties say they are struggling to effectively prioritise critical updates and tend to fall back on the approach of ...