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August 2025 – Patch Tuesday Testing Guidance
August 13, 2025
Each month, the Readiness team analyzes Microsoft's latest updates and provides technically sound, actionable testing plans. August's release brings updates to core Windows components, with…
Patch Tuesday: The day after
April 17, 2023Ok, so you have gone through the all the Microsoft updates, kicked off a number of deployment jobs, done your testing and now you are…
Patch now to address a Windows zero-day
April 15, 2023Microsoft has addressed 97 existing vulnerabilities this April Patch Tuesday, with a further eight previously released patches updated and re-released. A Windows zero-day requires immediate…
Testing Guidance for April Patch Tuesday
April 12, 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 a…
Assurance Security Dashboard April 2023
April 11, 2023
App Wednesday – April 2023
April 5, 2023Once a month, in the middle of the Patch Tuesday release cycle, the Readiness teams publishes an update on Microsoft related patches, out of band …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…