Here is a really helpful free tool on the Internet to “grade”
your website. I first heard about it
from my friend David Dadian the CEO at Powersolutions.com. It is called HubSpot and you can reach it at http://marketing.grader.com/
I took a quick look at it back then, but I did not spend the
time on it that I should. Today I am at
the Service Provider International conference in Anaheim and it was mentioned
again so I thought I better take another look.
It is really helpful. They do a
quick assessment on your website and provide a grade. Not only that, but HubSpot makes suggestions
on what you should do to improve your ranking.
One of the admonitions to me from HubSpot is to do more blogs. Well, I can check off that task… at least for
today.
Go check it out.
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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.