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Incident Response Readiness: Preparing for Ransomware
Understanding the Importance of Incident Response Readiness Ransomware attacks are on the rise, posing a significant threat to organizations of all sizes. These malicious cybersecurity breaches can paralyze an entire IT infrastructure, leading to substantial financial loss and damage to [...]
Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)
Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) A Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is a key concept in business continuity planning and disaster recovery, especially when responding to cyberattacks like ransomware. It refers to the maximum acceptable amount of time that a system, [...]
Ransomware and Business Impact Analysis: How They Affect Each Other
Ransomware and Business Impact Analysis: How They Affect Each Other Ransomware has become a prevalent and dangerous threat in today's digital world, affecting businesses of all sizes. This type of malware encrypts a company's data, rendering it inaccessible until [...]
Support Services for Ransomware Victims
Understanding the Threat: The Rise of Ransomware Attacks We at Alvaka have observed a significant uptick in ransomware incidents, underscoring a menacing trend that targets businesses and individuals alike. Ransomware—an insidious type of malware—encrypts victims' files, holding the data hostage [...]
Effective Cyber Breach Containment Services
Rise of Cybersecurity Threats and the Need for Containment Cyber breach containment services have become a critical component of organizational resilience in battling the ever-evolving cybersecurity threats. In recent times, the landscape of digital threats has expanded at an alarming [...]
Understanding the DarkSide Ransomware Threat and How to Respond
Getting to Know the DarkSide: The Emergence of a Potent Cyber Threat Responding to the DarkSide ransomware threat becomes imperative as we witness the emergence of DarkSide as a formidable force in the cybercrime arena. Our understanding of this threat [...]
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.
