The process of deciding the relative importance of a thing

What does your to do list look like? If it’s anything like mine, it includes things like grocery shopping, laundry, buying dog food, putting gas in the car, sweeping the floor, walking the dog, and cooking dinner. Colloquial wisdom holds that a good number of to do items for each day is roughly 6-12 items, assuming that each take 30 minutes to an hour. That’s nice and all… but we haven’t even gotten to my work to-do list. So how, as humans, do we…

June 5, 2019 Flexera

CVE-2019-0708: Winter Doesn’t Have to Come Today

For those of you not in love with Game of Thrones Season 8 (see the petition asking HBO to redo this season), Microsoft Patch Tuesday is offering its own degree of dramatic flare. On Tuesday, May 14, Simon Pope, Director of Incident Response, Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) wrote the blog post, “Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708). He said, “In other words, the vulnerability is ‘wormable’, meaning that any…

May 21, 2019 Flexera

Recent RDS Vulnerability, and What EOL Software Means for You

Once again, a vulnerability has been discovered in older Microsoft Windows operating systems that will likely lead to some long nights and grumpy IT personnel. When a situation like this presents itself the first thing that should be done is to take a deep breath (seriously, calm down) and secondly to review the latest assessment of the hosts in your environment. Hopefully one has access to details about the operating systems in use, how many the…

May 20, 2019 Dylan Hudak

Corporate Software Inspector will soon become Software Vulnerability Manager

Sometimes, a product evolves in a way that its name no longer reflects its use and its capabilities. This is what happened to Corporate Software Inspector (or CSI, as our loyal customers over the years have referred to it). When the first version of Corporate Software Inspector was launched by Secunia in 2008, this is what it was: a scanning engine to determine the patch status of applications. A purpose-built solution to inspect software used i…

April 26, 2018 Flexera