Planning for Cybersecurity Resilience

The Imperative of Cybersecurity in the Modern Business Landscape Cybersecurity resilience planning has become an indispensable component of our approach in safeguarding business operations at Alvaka. In an era where digital advancements continue to revolutionize the corporate world, the frequency [...]

2024-11-08T12:30:38-08:00November 18th, 2024|

The Importance of Third-Party Software Patching

And Why Executives Should Care... Threats to network security seem to get announced weekly. Global ransomware attacks like WannaCry cause havoc around the world and billions of dollars in losses. Businesses are actually shuttering due to network attacks that [...]

2021-01-27T21:17:55-08:00June 27th, 2019|

Software Patch Management is Geographically Undesirable

Many organizations continue to find themselves between a rock and hard-place when it comes to consistently applying security updates or “patches” across their environments. On one hand, they recognize their unpatched software exposes them to risk of a disruptive and [...]

2020-03-27T17:06:52-07:00March 6th, 2019|

Ransomware v2.0 Recovery – Now, encrypted or deleted backups!

Warning!!! We have entered a new, even more malicious, era for ransomware that is hitting mid-market companies particularly hard, with deleted or encrypted backups. The two stories I share below are chilling… For the last five years or so, ransomware [...]

2021-01-28T17:48:31-08:00February 6th, 2019|

Will Patching Break My Network?

IT organizations understand the importance of applying current security updates, or "patches", to the operating systems and software applications running in their environment. However, many are reluctant to do so for fear of "breaking" their systems and causing outages. And, [...]

2020-03-27T17:26:27-07:00November 3rd, 2018|

Why Don’t IT Departments Fully Patch Their Environments?

The failure to fully apply security updates (patches) to operating systems and software applications is the leading cause of cybersecurity compromise. A recent survey by Ponemon Institute of over 3,000 organizations, found that half had experienced a cybersecurity breach in [...]

2020-03-27T17:28:15-07:00October 30th, 2018|

To patch or not to patch? And what is patching anyway?

If you own a computer, it is very likely you know something about patching, or updating, software. First, this is different from upgrading, which usually means a developer of software has added new features or made significant changes to the [...]

2020-02-04T01:51:36-08:00October 18th, 2018|