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January 2025 Testing Guidlines
January 15, 2025
Each month, the team at Readiness analyses the latest Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and provides detailed, actionable testing guidance. This guidance is based on…
Readiness announces strategic partnership with appCURE
December 1, 2020This month of November 2020 sees the combination of two strategic efforts to combine and automate the technical challenge of discovering, recovering and repackaging legacy…Browser updates are back for Update Tuesday – Testing may be needed for Windows patches
November 16, 2020Microsoft released 129 updates to its Windows ecosystem this month. The good news: we are not dealing with any zero-days or publicly reported vulnerabilities.gReadiness has now joined the UK G-Cloud 12 Framework
October 20, 2020It gives me great pleasure to write today that we have now been formally accepted into the UK Government G-Cloud 12 program. What is the…Microsoft focuses on Office, less so on Windows, and offers nothing for browsers on Patch Tuesday
October 19, 2020A surprisingly light update for this Patch Tuesday, with a reduced number of Windows updates, no Microsoft browser updates and some critical Office patches. So…A Fat Windows Update for September’s Patch Tuesday
September 12, 2020Microsoft released 129 updates to its Windows ecosystem this month. The good news: we are not dealing with any zero-days or publicly reported vulnerabilities.A zero-day and testing of key printing features will drive August Windows updates
August 15, 2020Though a DNS-spoofing vulnerability in Windows has been rated as a zero-day, the focus for this month’s updates should be on testing key Windows features…Advisories and mitigations, oh my! Critical updates for Windows this July
July 27, 2020July's Patch Tuesday update round-up deals with 123 separate security vulnerabilities, including an urgent issue with Microsoft Outlook and a very serious flaw in Windows…Assurance Security Dashboard July 2020
July 16, 2020Here is our Assurance Security dashboard that shows the risk associated with this month's Patch Tuesday updates.Large in number, large in nature, this Patch Tuesday needs your attention
June 12, 2020With another critical update to Adobe Flash Player, critical updates to Microsoft’s browsers and the number and nature of updates to Windows platform, this month…