Dark Reading

Tofino Security News: Patching For Industrial Cyber Security Is A Broken Model

St. Louis, Missouri – March 14, 2013 – Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC), a global leader in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications, announces that its Tofino Security brand has ...
Threat Post

Report: Companies Still Not Patching Security Vulnerabilities

The Cisco 2015 Annual Security report shows that CISOs and other security personnel are confident about their strategies despite that they are not patching. The Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report is ...
Security

The problem with patching

Unpatched vulnerabilities are an everyday fact of life in many IT environments. Ransomware incidents like WannaCry serve as proof that enterprises are lagging behind patches. WannaCry managed to ...
Business Wire

ServiceNow Research Uncovers Security’s Patching Paradox

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE: NOW) today released new research, “Today’s State of Vulnerability Response: Patch Work Demands Attention,” based on a survey conducted ...
MIT Technology Review

Patching the Security Update Process

Recent research shows that the typical PC user needs to install a security update roughly every five days in order to safely use Microsoft Windows and all of the third-party programs that typically ...
Dark Reading

When Patching Security Flaws, Smarter Trumps Faster

Organizations that use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize the patching of software security vulnerabilities reduce their potential exploitability compared with randomly ...
Ars Technica

PSA: Apple isn’t actually patching all the security holes in older versions of macOS

Apple really needs to commit to explicit support timelines. And they need to be clear about what that support means. iOS 12 has received updates as recently as September 23, but it doesn't appear that ...
Forbes

Knowing About Your Security Flaws And Not Patching: Priceless? Actually: $575 Million

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. At long last we know the cost of the Equifax breach, at least $575 million—but what can we take away from this? For those that ...
Bleeping Computer

Visibility Gaps: Streamlining Patching and Vulnerability Remediation

For years, patch management has been one of the least glamorous yet most consequential aspects of IT operations. Vulnerabilities emerge daily, and while most administrators know the importance of ...
Healthcare IT News

How Vail Health ensures consistent medical device security and firmware patching

Vail Health is a nonprofit community health system with locations in Eagle and Summit counties in Colorado. Vail Health offers a 56-bed hospital, 24/7 emergency care, a helipad, urgent care clinics, ...
Computer Weekly

Security Think Tank: Patching is vital and essentially a risk management exercise

We often hear we need to keep software up to date by applying security patches as soon as possible, but this is not as simple as it sounds, because patching operating systems can cause some bespoke ...