MDR Insights - Patch all the things!
Ask any security professional what their advice is to organizations and patching is usually at the top of the list. Look, we get it, it’s not easy to do. Patching can interfere with productivity, slowing down or interrupting the primary business functions. Patching costs money, requires time, planning, and is usually done at late hours or over the weekend. In a recent discussion amongst our Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts, we discovered issues like the cost of new hardware or compatibility between updates and old hardware. Many companies delay patching, implement “temporary” workarounds, or simply ignore legacy workloads and let them linger indefinitely.
Article Link: Bitdefender Threat Debrief | February 2023