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Patch Tuesday Update - January 2024

Tue, 01/09/2024
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.34.0 and Agent 2.3 releases.Microsoft addressed 49 vulnerabilities in this release, including 2 rated as Critical and 12 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.CVE/AdvisoryTitleTagMicrosoft Severity RatingBase ScoreMicrosoft ImpactExploitedPublicly DisclosedCVE-2024-20666BitLocker Security Feature Bypass VulnerabilityWindows...
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ENISA’s New Report Highlights Cyber Investments and Pushes Vulnerability Management

By Mieng Lim on Mon, 01/08/2024
This past November, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) released its NIS Investments Report 2023, a rundown of how critical EU operators have been investing in cybersecurity pursuant to the NIS Directive. It not only covers how dollars have been spent, but suggest how they ought to be going forward. One particular point of emphasis? Vulnerability management. Vulnerability...
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Data Scanning: How to Protect Sensitive & Confidential Data

Wed, 12/27/2023
Being able to scan your data can give you the full scope of where files exist and what needs to be properly secured. In this blog, we break down why it's a key part of data loss prevention, who uses data scanning, and why it's important.
Data Loss Prevention
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Create Chaos to Engineer Security Testing

Wed, 12/20/2023
What is Chaos Testing?Application chaos testing does its best to counteract Murphy’s Law, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.Chaos testing and engineering is a proactive test methodology that identifies system errors prone to misuse before they can cause damage and security concerns for an application. This style of testing was developed and made...
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Top Data Vulnerabilities that Cause Data Loss

Thu, 12/14/2023
In this blog we take a high level look at some of the vulnerabilities or flaws in a system that can lead to data loss, the stages of exploiting a vulnerability, the impact, and how to best safeguard your data against vulnerabilities.
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Patch Tuesday Update December 2023

By Tyler Reguly on Thu, 12/14/2023
It would seem that Microsoft was feeling particularly festive and wanted to give admins around the world a bit of a break this holiday season. This month, we see 36 Microsoft CVEs and six non-Microsoft CVEs for a total of 42 CVEs and eight of those CVEs are Edge (Chromium-based) vulnerabilities that were announced last week.
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Patch Tuesday Update - December 2023

Tue, 12/12/2023
Fortra VM will include the Microsoft Patch Tuesday checks in the NIRV 4.32.0 and Agent 2.2 releases.Microsoft addressed 33 vulnerabilities in this release, including 4 rated as Critical and 8 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities.CVE/AdvisoryTitleTagMicrosoft Severity RatingBase ScoreMicrosoft ImpactExploitedPublicly DisclosedCVE-2023-36696Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of...
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Debunking Popular Myths About Vulnerability Management

By Mieng Lim on Mon, 12/11/2023
“Vulnerability Management” can be a security term that carries a lot of unnecessary weight. The irony is that the right vulnerability management (VM) solutions can actually take the weight off – your security team, your organization, and your other assets. Understanding how means debunking some of the more popular myths around this topic and discovering the truth behind one of security’s most...
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3 Data Masking Techniques and How to Implement Them

Tue, 12/05/2023
Data masking or data obfuscation has become a popular way to modify data to make it difficult to ascertain what's authentic vs. what's been modified. In today's blog we look at three different data masking techniques.
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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
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What Are Privileged Accounts? Common Types & Security Risks

Mon, 12/04/2023
In cybersecurity, privilege refers to the authority that certain accounts have; what they can and can't perform. When it comes to privileged accounts, there's a handful of different types, and with them, no shortage of challenges for managing and securing them.
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Introducing Fortra's Data Classification

By Piers Chivers on Fri, 12/01/2023
We’re writing today to share news about an exciting new beginning for the Titus and Boldon James products. Fortra has long been a global expert in software for data classification and we’re thrilled to share that beginning today, the two brands will live under the same roof, on a new microsite, as Fortra’s Data Classification. Whether you're looking for product information, educational data...