Why Your Cybersecurity Strategy Must Include Multi-Factor Authentication
The cybersecurity industry is buried in unexplained and confusing terms and acronyms. Two important terms that everyone should know and understand are multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA). They are both security mechanisms designed to accurately identify a [...]
The Social & Psychological Impacts of Ransomware
When a ransomware gang attacks, it’s not just a problem for IT professionals, it impacts everyone. A ransomware attack triggers a chain reaction. Not only is it damaging to the entity, but it can also impact its employees, third-party [...]
“Pig-Butchering” Crypto Investment Scam
In recent news, the FBI sent out alerts of a new cryptocurrency investment scam that’s sweeping America, the “pig-butchering” scam. Originating from China, criminals behind this cryptocurrency scheme have expanded their operations to Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia. Researchers discovered [...]
Impact of Cyber Attacks on Water Infrastructure
We hear a lot about critical infrastructure and how important it is to secure it. But few categories of infrastructure are more critical to human existence than water and wastewater processing and transport systems. Next to the air we [...]
Why Healthcare Entities Should Invest in Robust Cybersecurity
Healthcare organizations are under attack from all sides of their businesses. We are seeing a major increase in directed ransomware and other cyber-attacks on a variety of healthcare organizations and their partners. These attacks are crippling operations, while also [...]
Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions: Tool vs Service
The backend system of every organization is complex and unique, so it can be challenging to find the right IT infrastructure monitoring solution that works with one’s network and systems. There are two main ways to implement infrastructure monitoring: [...]
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.
