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Why Traditional Approaches to Patch Management Fail in the Era of SaaS Sprawl and BYOD

Why Traditional Approaches to Patch Management Fail in the Era of SaaS Sprawl and BYOD

Aug 18, 2025
Device and software vulnerabilities pose an increasing risk to modern security. However, patch management is an infamously difficult (and downright Sisyphean) task for IT and security teams, who are faced with an ever-growing list of CVEs to remediate. This task was difficult enough in the days of on-premise environments, but a modern distributed workforce has to contend with all the users, devices, and applications that may exist outside the purview of traditional security solutions, like MDM. Overall, with the ever-growing number of CVEs and the ever-growing sprawl of shadow IT, patch management has become both more urgent and more daunting than ever. IT and security teams need to adopt zero trust methods to ensure that only healthy and patched devices are able to access their critical systems. With the help of SaaS management and employee-remediation tactics, teams can do even more to improve efficacy and support for their company-wide patch management programs.  French philo...
Dissecting the 2025 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report: Key Trends and Insights

Dissecting the 2025 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report: Key Trends and Insights

May 05, 2025
Many of the day-to-day digital operations of businesses, governments, and critical infrastructure have one thing in common: Microsoft. From the Microsoft Windows operating systems powering endpoints and servers, to Azure's rapidly growing cloud services, Microsoft's products are everywhere, making the company and its products attractive targets for threat actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities at scale.  With more than 1.4 billion Windows users around the globe and the adoption of platforms like Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and Azure surging, a single exploitable vulnerability in a Microsoft product can open the door to privilege escalation, lateral movement, or ransomware deployments that impact tens of thousands of interconnected systems. Whether nation state or financially motivated, modern cyber-crime syndicates will consistently take the path of least resistance, and vulnerable assets are a reliable attack vector. For twelve years, the Microsoft Vulnerabilities Repor...
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