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: [...]
Why Infrastructure Monitoring is Critical to Your Business
What is Infrastructure Monitoring? Infrastructure monitoring refers to the collection and review of information on infrastructure components to measure performance and efficiency. It gauges how healthy a system is by collecting the performance information and data from servers, databases, [...]
Emergency Help for Fortinet Ransomware & Cyber Breach Recovery
FortiOS Ransomware and Cyber Breach Vulnerabilities are Back! Fortinet is again the target of hackers, ransomware hackers specifically. Fortinet’s big problem is a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS. We have seen that it is already leading to breached [...]
Alvaka is Named a 2022 Top Workplace for 2nd Year in a Row
Orange County Register Names Alvaka a Winner of the Orange County Top Workplaces 2022 Award Irvine, California December 09, 2022 - For the second consecutive year, Alvaka is named a 2022 Top Workplace, an honor awarded by The Orange [...]
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.
