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March 2026 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 03/10/2026
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s March 2026 Security Updates. The FIRE team is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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February 2026 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 02/10/2026
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s February 2026 Security Updates. The FIRE team is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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January 2026 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 01/13/2026
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s January 2026 Security Updates. The FIRE team is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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November 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 11/11/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s November 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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October 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 10/14/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s October 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship that coverage as soon as it is completed.
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How to Automate Vulnerability Management: Benefits, Best Practices, and FAQs

Mon, 09/08/2025
What Is Vulnerability Management Automation? At its core, vulnerability management (VM) is the continuous process of scanning an organization’s digital environment for exploitable weaknesses that could serve as entry points for cyberattacks, reporting and evaluating the findings, and remediating systems to remove detected weaknesses. For vulnerability...
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Waiting to Patch? Attackers Won’t Wait to Exploit.

By Cybersecurity Experts at Fortra on Wed, 08/20/2025
In the time it takes for some companies to determine which vulnerabilities to patch, attackers will have already launched their malicious strike.In cybersecurity, we see this all the time. A major company was breached through a vulnerability that had a patch available for over 6 months. The patch wasn’t applied due to internal process delays, competing priorities, and fear of system downtime....
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August 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 08/12/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1169 as soon as coverage is completed.
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How Do You Determine What Vulnerabilities to Fix First?

By David Henderson on Tue, 07/29/2025
Security teams don’t suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from a lack of clarity. Every scan, every alert, every dashboard shouts for attention. The result? A wall of red. Thousands of vulnerabilities. Hundreds marked critical. Dozens hitting the same system. Teams are left staring at the mess, asking the only question that matters: Which one do we fix first? That question doesn’t get enough...
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July 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 07/08/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s July 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1164 as soon as coverage is completed.
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June 2025 Patch Tuesday Analysis

By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 06/10/2025
Today’s Patch Tuesday Alert addresses Microsoft’s June 2025 Security Updates. We are actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expect to ship ASPL-1160 as soon as coverage is completed.
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Patch Tuesday Update - January 2025

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 01/14/2025
FVM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.57.0 and FVM Agent 2.18.• Microsoft addressed 158 vulnerabilities this release, including 10 rated as Critical.Microsoft has publicly disclosed the below vulnerabilities:CVE-2025-21366 - Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution VulnerabiliyCVE-2025-21395 - Microsoft Access Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityCVE-2025-21186 -...
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Patch Tuesday Update - November 2024

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 11/12/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.54.0 and FVM Agent 2.15 releases.Microsoft addressed 89 vulnerabilities in this release, including 4 rated as Critical and 51 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.This release also includes fixes for two vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed and exploited in the wild.CVE-2024-43451 NTLM Hash Disclosure Spoofing...
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Patch Tuesday Update - October 2024

Tue, 10/08/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.52.0 and FVM Agent 2.13 releases. Microsoft addressed 117 vulnerabilities in this release, including 3 rated as Critical and 43 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities. This release also includes fixes for two vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. CVE-2024-43572 Microsoft Management Console Remote Code...
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Fortra VM 7.0.3 Release

Thu, 09/19/2024
The Fortra VM 7.0.3 release is now live.  In this release there is a new Standard Scan feature. New Standard ScanFortra VM Release 7.0.3 introduces a new Standard Scan option. This Standard Scan feature provides an initial preset option that pre-selects the most widely used VM scan settings. Standard mode allows users to get a scan up and running in just a few clicks, without having to go...
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Patch Tuesday Update - September 2024

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 09/10/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.50.0 and FVM Agent 2.11 releases.Microsoft addressed 79 vulnerabilities in this release, including 7 rated as Critical and 23 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.This release also includes fixes for four vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.CVE-2024-38217 and CVE-2024-38226 are Security Feature Bypass...
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Patch Tuesday Update - August 2024

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 08/13/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.48.0 and FVM Agent 2.10 releases.Microsoft addressed 86 vulnerabilities in this release, including 7 rated as Critical and 28 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.This release also includes fixes for six vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.Microsoft Project Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38189...
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Managing the Rising Tide of CVEs 

By Mieng Lim on Fri, 07/26/2024
If you are watching recent security stats, you’ll likely spot an alarming trend. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) are on the rise and expected to increase by 25% in 2024, reaching 2,900 CVEs per month¹. It’s not a huge surprise that the number of known vulnerabilities is growing, given the proliferation of systems and software. Unfortunately, average time to remediation is increasing...
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Patch Tuesday Update - July 2024

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 07/09/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.46.0 and FVM Agent 2.9 releases.Microsoft addressed 142 vulnerabilities in this release, including 5 rated as critical, and 59 remote code execution vulnerabilities.This release represents a huge increase in the number of CVEs, as opposed to last month’s count.Notable Vulnerabilities from this patch Tuesday release:CVE-2024...
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Patch Tuesday Update - June 2024

By Mieng Lim on Tue, 06/11/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.44.0 and FVM Agent 2.8 releases.Microsoft addressed 51 vulnerabilities in this release, including 1 rated as Critical and 18 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.CVE/AdvisoryTitleTagMicrosoft Severity RatingBase ScoreMicrosoft ImpactExploitedPublicly DisclosedCVE-2024-30069Windows Remote Access Connection Manager Information...
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