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Remediate Windows Vulnerability CVE-2020-0674

Alert: There’s a new zero-day RCE on Windows Internet Explorer, CVE-2020-0674, with no available patches out there yet. Not only that, as of now (1/20/20) this vulnerability cannot be scanned by VA tools. This vulnerability is highly dangerous and is reported to have been exploited in the wild. Therefore, security teams must act fast.

Remediate Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in an Enterprise VPN

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) had alerted organizations to patch their Pulse Secure VPN servers as a defense against ongoing attacks trying to exploit a known remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. 

Top Cyber Security Events for VM Professionals

Improving vulnerability management and remediation processes is a task that requires cybersecurity pros to actively keep up with the latest developments in the threat landscape, business environment, and tech solutions. Due to the sheer volume of the task, staying current on all those issues is nearly impossible to do alone.

Vulcan 2019 – A Year In Review Managing Cyber Security

With 2019 coming to a close, it’s a great opportunity for reflection. Looking back – what a year this has been! So many milestones and achievements to be proud of!

Integrate CI Tools with VM for Risk Remediation

Continuous integration and continuous delivery and/or deployment (CI/CD) has become a staple within the modern software development landscape, and it is now extending into patch management. The importance of your environment’s security cannot be overstated, nor can the difficulty of maintaining that security. The question then becomes: What exactly is CI/CD and how can you… Continue reading Integrate CI Tools with VM for Risk Remediation

Looking Back at 2019’s Nastiest Software Vulnerabilities

As 2019 draws to a close, we want to look back at the year’s biggest security breaches. Some we chose because of the damage they caused, others because of how easily they could have been avoided, just by using stronger passwords or paying attention to warnings. Even the more complex ones could have been prevented… Continue reading Looking Back at 2019’s Nastiest Software Vulnerabilities

The Guide to Windows Patching

With new vulnerabilities and threats constantly making headlines, frequent patch releases is a must for operating systems. Keeping software and operating systems up to date is critical for ensuring system security.

CISA’s New Guidelines for the Information Systems Auditor

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is responsible for building America’s “national capacity to defend against cyber-attacks and … to safeguard the ‘.gov’ networks.” Its mandate includes securing all publicly accessible Federal websites by scanning them for vulnerabilities that need to be remediated. On April 29, 2019, CISA issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 19-02,… Continue reading CISA’s New Guidelines for the Information Systems Auditor

The Importance of Cyber Security Skills

In a previous blog on challenges in today’s security environment, we discussed the shortage of cybersecurity personnel – in the US alone, 3.5 million positions are expected to be unfilled by 2021. According to the Global Information Security Workforce, the main reason for this gap is not a lack of candidates per se; it’s a… Continue reading The Importance of Cyber Security Skills

Cloud vs. On-Prem Patching: What’s the Difference?

Patching has become particularly challenging in the new cloud and hybrid-cloud environments— especially across Windows and Linux—despite the many methods and technologies for this. What are the differences between patching in Windows and Linux, and how does this all fit into the modern cloud infrastructure? Do these new environment paradigms facilitate or complicate patch management?

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