Dual Ransomware Attacks and How to Protect Yourself
On September 27, 2023, the FBI issued an alert regarding a growing trend of dual ransomware attacks, primarily targeting US businesses. The FBI emphasized that these attacks were occurring in close succession, with some victims encountering two different ransomware variants [...]
What are the Impacts of Generative AI on Cloud Security?
What is Generative AI? Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence capable of producing fresh content, including text, images, audio, and video. It accomplishes this by learning the patterns and structure from existing data, and then using this [...]
What is Cybersecurity Consolidation?
What is Cybersecurity Consolidation? Cybersecurity consolidation refers to the process of streamlining and centralizing various cybersecurity tools, solutions, and processes within an organization. This consolidation aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and manageability of an organization's cybersecurity posture by [...]
What are Common Web Application Cyberattacks?
A significant portion of cybersecurity attacks target vulnerabilities and security weaknesses discovered within web applications. Web applications continue to be a primary target for cyberattacks and is one of the most common and favored cyberattack mediums for threat actors. Web [...]
Business Email Compromise: The Easiest Route for Threat Actors
BEC, or Business email compromise, is a type of cybercrime that involves attackers manipulating or compromising business email accounts for fraudulent purposes. BEC scams are designed to deceive individuals or organizations into making financial transitions or sharing sensitive information under [...]
Why are Cloud Threat Actors Thriving?
Impact of Cloud Landscape on Incident Response Cloud incident cases differ from standard incident cases because of the different technology concepts. Currently, malicious actors in cloud environments have it easy because many aspects of the cloud landscape are unknown. [...]
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.
