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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 Software Vulnerability Management

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 Software Vulnerability Management

So What is Threat Intelligence, Anyway?

One of the newest buzzwords in security is Threat Intelligence. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, and everyone is talking about it. But does it really justify the buzz? What makes it different than standard threat scoring that’s been around forever? The cleanest answer is that threat scoring and risk assessment aren’t the same. During 2018, NVD tracked 16,515 vulnerabilities1, an average of 45 vulnerabilities reported every single day. …

May 20, 2019 Software Vulnerability Management

Keeping an Eye on Redundant Applications

Gaining control over the SaaS ecosystem and spend is not an easy task. Companies must follow a process to avoid redundancy. Redundancy means wasted costs and increased risk. With all of the many concerns and to-dos that come with digital transformation, it’s easy to fall into the mindset of, “I’ll get to that later.” At first glance, consolidating SaaS apps seems like the last thing an IT department would need to tackle. This would be a costly mi…

May 7, 2019 Software License Optimization

Gartner names Flexera a 2019 Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools Leader

All of us at Flexera are incredibly proud to announce that Flexera has been named as a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools! For the second time Gartner positioned Flexera as a market “Leader” (upper right quadrant) because of our Completeness of Vision and  Ability to Execute. Flexera (RightScale) was also a Leader in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Management Platforms. But as proud as we are for being…

April 30, 2019 Software License Optimization