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Leveraging Cloud Backups for Secure Data Protection
The Evolution of Backup Strategies: From Physical Media to Cloud Resilience As technology evolves, so does the way businesses protect their critical data. For decades, companies relied on physical media—like tape drives and external hard drives—to back up important [...]
How to Train IT Teams for Ransomware Incident Response
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Protecting Intellectual Property from Ransomware Attacks
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Instilling Cybersecurity Best Practices Across Your Workforce
Understanding the Importance of Cybersecurity in the Modern Workplace In an era where digital information flows continuously within and outside the organizational boundaries, the significance of cybersecurity cannot be overstated. Our interconnected world means that the risks and potential [...]
Top Strategies to Combat Phishing with Email Security
Understanding Phishing and Its Impacts on Business Security Phishing is a type of cyberattack where malicious actors masquerade as legitimate entities to extract sensitive information from unsuspecting individuals. Within an organizational context, phishing poses a severe threat not only [...]
The Benefits of Cyber Threat Hunting for Ransomware
Introduction to Cyber Threat Hunting and Ransomware Cyber threat hunting ransomware benefits are of paramount importance in today's digital landscape, where the emergence of sophisticated cyber threats continues to escalate. Cyber threat hunting is an active cyber defense activity designed [...]
You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.
Smoke testing is a type of software testing performed by Alvaka after a software patching sequence to ensure that the system is working correctly and to identify any misconfigurations or conflicts within the patched system.
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.
