Enhance Your Cybersecurity Strategy with Endpoint Detection and Response
What is Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and why is it important? Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), is a security technology that helps organizations detect and respond to security threats (ransomware, malware, etc.) on endpoints such as computers, laptops, [...]
Ransomware Attacks Saw Huge Increase in March 2023
According to NCC Group's Global Threat Intelligence Team, ransomware attacks have seen a significant increase this year. In March 2023, ransomware attacks increased by over 90% compared to February and over 60% compared to March 2022. NCC Group stated that [...]
CISA’s Pilot Program Helps Protect Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware
Earlier this year, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) launched a new program to help protect critical infrastructure institutions by safeguarding their information systems from ransomware cybercriminals. The two main purposes of this new program, called Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot [...]
World Backup Day: Safeguard Enterprise Data with Effective Backup Strategies
In honor of World Backup Day on March 31st, we encourage your organization to review and strengthen your data backup strategies. Ensuring that your data is securely backed up and reliably recoverable is crucial to your organization's continuity and [...]
Protect Against Ransomware With Immutable Backups
One of the most effective ways to protect against ransomware attacks is to have immutable backups. Immutable backups are backups that cannot be altered or deleted, even by users with administrative privileges. This means that if your system is [...]
Microsoft Monitoring Over 100 Ransomware Threat Actors
Microsoft recently disclosed that they are monitoring over 100 different threat actors utilizing 50 unique ransomware families to attack businesses and organizations across the world. These attacks have been increasing in frequency, severity, and sophistication. The threat actors behind [...]
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.
