Greg Lambert is an evangelist for Application Readiness, the online assessment and application conversion specialists. Greg is a co-founder of ChangeBASE, and now CEO of Application Readiness, and has considerable experience with application packaging technology and its deployment.
It’s a holiday miracle with no critical Windows patches and an unusually low number of updates overall — but with three zero-days in the wild, patching can’t wait.
This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs.
This isn’t a good month for IT admins to take time off if they want to get ahead of all the patches Microsoft pushed out this week.
Microsoft this month pushed out 133 patches for a broad swatch of software and apps and plugged a zero-day flaw in SQL Server.
IT admins should move quickly to patch two zero-day flaws Microsoft patched earlier this week.
Five zero-day exploits earn this month’s Windows updates a “Patch Now” recommendation.
IT admins will be busy this month: the latest patch update from Microsoft includes 126 fixes, including one for an exploited Windows flaw and five critical patches for Office.
Compared to past months, the number of security fixes released for March is down, but that doesn’t mean IT admins won’t be busy.
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