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March 2025 Patch Tuesday -57 fixes — and 7 zero-days
March 16, 2025
For so few patches from Microsoft this month (57), we have seven zero-days to manage with a Patch Now recommendation for Windows and standard release…
Assurance Security Dashboard March 2023
March 26, 2023
Ready to Launch
March 25, 2023I wanted to take a little time this week to talk about some of the "unsung" automation features in the Readiness automation platform. One of…
Patch Office and Windows Now to Resolve Two Zero-Days
March 17, 2023Microsoft has resolved 80 new CVEs in addition to four previously released CVEs, bringing the number of security issues addressed in this month's Patch Tuesday…
Microsoft DCOM Hardening: The Inside Story
March 16, 2023Microsoft is making a big change today. To be more specific Microsoft is making a big change mandatory today. DCOM - the behaviour of a core…
Testing Guidance for March 2023 Patch Tuesday
March 15, 2023Each month, the team at Readiness analyses the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. This guidance is based on assessing…
MSI Installer Errors – The End of an Error (a)
March 10, 2023Going back to the early days of Windows Installer, packaging (or scripting as it was called then) was based on simple scripts. Sometimes Visual Basic…
Readiness March Newsletter
March 8, 2023A warm welcome to all who are joining us for this March edition of the Readiness newsletter. For those who would like to know about…
Application Confidence – Automated Assessment with Readiness
February 27, 2023This week Microsoft posted a good article on application compatibility. Which is apparently is still a thing. We have worked closely with Microsoft over the past…
Readiness and VMWare: Technology Alliance Partner
February 24, 2023One of the things that we sometimes forget when working with Microsoft Azure, is that VMWare is still a vital component of our client’s virtualisation…