Readiness Blog

October 2025 Testing Guidance
October 15, 2025
Each month, the team at Readiness analyzes the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. This guidance is based on…

Pay to Play Packaging Offer from Readiness
November 9, 2023There is a famous (if somewhat apocryphal) story of one of our senior engineers' interview question: "Why do you want to join our team?" The…
App Wednesday
November 8, 2023Once a month, near the end of the Patch Tuesday release cycle, the Readiness teams publishes an update on Microsoft related patches, out of band …
Working With Microsoft
November 7, 2023As part of our ongoing process improvement at Readiness, we run through our successes and failures. Last year we delivered projects where we really "nailed…
Microsoft Raises the Security Bar With Secure Future Initiative
November 6, 2023Earlier this year Microsoft shifted to a new threat actor taxonomy roughly patterned off of (bad) weather systems. These threat actors where categorized in to…
CVSS Ratings Gets the Red, Amber Green Treatment
November 2, 2023FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams has recently unveiled the latest version of their Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). This is a…
Patch Patch! You’re Dead.
November 1, 2023There are several vendors and solution providers out now who are providing vulnerability assessments. These (vulnerability) assessments can vary from automated solutions to manual validation…
Windows 11 Support for Compression Extensions: A Moral Imperative
October 31, 2023One of the topics that I was fortunate to study during my stay in Japan was the concept of Kaizan. This approach to process improvement…
Technical Debt: An Odyssey of Automation
October 30, 2023One of our partners DXC has recently published a comprehensive survey of their clients on their existing IT systems and their appetite for change. One…
A Patent for Readiness
October 25, 2023Over the past 3 years (and over COVID) the Readiness team has worked on evolving the assessment algorithms as part of our online compatibility, suitability,…