Notification of Upcoming Out Of Band Patch to be Released by Microsoft
Today Microsoft announced that they plan to release an out of band update this coming Monday, August 2nd. The update will address Security Advisory 2286198.
Psst…Have you heard Mozilla and Apple’s dirty little secret?
Still think patching non-Microsoft applications is unimportant? Guess again.
Technology reseller, Channel Reseller, just posted the latest security report (data from Secunia) identifying the most dangerous and most attacked applications and also the most vulnerable operating systems.
The report found that Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respectively as the most vulnerable third party applications. Mozilla Firefox contained a total of 96 vulnerabilities while Apple’s Safari thus far had 84.
According to the report, …
R.I.P Windows XP SP2
Tuesday, July 13…a date which will live in infamy.
Not really, but it is the last date that Microsoft will deliver patches for what may have been its most popular operating system/service pack combo. Yes, it is true. Windows XP SP2 has officially reached end of life. Rest in peace.
This seems to have caught people by surprise. A quick check of the stats from our customer base (both NetChk Protect and IT.Shavlik.com) indicates that about 16% of the target machines managed by Shavlik are running XP SP2 as their operating system.
In a story that appeared on …
Last Comic Standing?
And now, IBM announces it will buy BigFix.
Mergers and acquisitions of Information Technology companies are not new. Globalization has fueled those activities for years.
But with the acquisition of BigFix by IBM, Shavlik becomes the last vendor focused on SMB and mid-market who hasn’t succumbed to the lure of big names and deep pockets and a troubled economy.
Which is good news for companies in the SMB market space.
Shavlik is strong and independent. …
Adobe back pedals on monthly patch cycle; announces new critical vulnerabilities
Dan Raywood from SC Magazine UK contacted us a couple of weeks ago for a comment on Adobe’s announcement that it would move to adopt a monthly patch release cycle. Dan’s article also seemed to indicate that after making the announcement, Adobe back pedaled saying that it is sticking with the quarterly cycle.
So, now we don’t know if Brad Arkin, Adobe’s director of product security and privacy, was inaccurate or premature. Stay tuned.
Following on the heels of this confusion, Adobe announced critical flaws in Flash, Reader, and Acrobat. Surprise, surprise.
In a post …
Shavlik releases new cloud strategy, and new identity
This week at Shavlik, we released a new corporate and product strategy that more solidly emphasizes our leadership in the cloud space and highlights how we leverage the latest in cloud and virtualization technologies to deliver an increasingly faster time to value in managing critical IT assets. See the news here.
This fast time to value we deliver to our customers is not new – Shavlik has always been known for this – but we continually raise the bar for ourselves as to what “fast” equates to. For the last several years, we’ve promised that in “30 minutes or …
The fun never ends when it comes to patching 3rd party applications
The critical need (not desire but need) to patch 3rd party applications continues to soar as indicated by a recent article in redmondmag.com magazine and a virtual user group hosted by WMUG.
In the redmond.com article, writer Jabulani Leffall casts a wide net when taking Microsoft and Adobe to task for making patch management a never ending task.
Shavlik — Data Team Manager Jason Miller and I — were invited to be the featured speakers at a recent WMUG virtual user group. The session …
Shavlik Extends Patch Plus with Power Management
Shavlik Technologies has just made Greener IT a reality for companies of all sizes with the release of NetChk Protect 7.5 Plus Power Management.
Shavlik has extended our Patch Plus approach by integrating best-in-class patch management seamlessly with power management (and Wake-on-LAN) so customers can maximize energy cost savings while minimizing systems missed by critical security updates because they were powered off during scheduled maintenance periods.
New features in Shavlik NetChk Protect 7.5:
Power off or put machines into hibernate or sleep mode on an immediate or scheduled basis
Wake-on-LAN: …
If you stop to think about it, patch management touches our lives daily
Reprint of post (4/28/2010) by the moderator of patchmanagement.org. Interesting way to look at patch management and the impact on our daily lives.
Nancee Melby
Director of Product Marketing
Shavlik Technologies
To whom it may concern at the Airport I’m flying out of this morning
When you install updates through whatever management service you use, can you make sure you flag the box to reboot preferably before 5:30 a.m.
which is when I arrived in the airport to see that EVERY gate information screen not only is running Window XP but had a “this system needs to be rebooted after automatic updates” message …
Shavlik’s Big Splash at the Microsoft Management Summit
The week at the Microsoft Management Summit in review.
I spent last week at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), April 19-22 in Las Vegas. While Microsoft finally added “cloud computing” to its massive vocabulary, the cloud announcements didn’t generate the most excitement and buzz. I’d have to say that honor belongs to Shavlik SCUpdates and the need to patch 3rd party applications.
We ended up with mentions in three of the biggest sessions at MMS. Bill Anderson, System Center program manager, demonstrated Shavlik SCUPdates in his “State of the Union” address. You can read about the State of the Union address in …
