Mimi Grant from ABL shares her personal sextortion experience in this vlog. In our previous blog, Sextortion: The New Threat No One is Talking About, Alvaka’s CEO shared the email that Mimi received and resources to handle and prevent this exploitation. In the video below, Mimi goes into detail about how a sextorter somehow learned one of her username and password combinations and tried to blackmail her into paying a bitcoin confidentiality fee. She also discusses some additional tips she was given from Alvaka’s COO & CISO, Kevin McDonald, to help protect herself against hackers in the future.
Vlog Sextortion – The Newest Way to Ruin Your Day from Jody Ferguson on Vimeo.
Click here to see the original posting from Mimi on ABL.
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.