{"id":6333,"date":"2019-10-12T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T03:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2019-10-12T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T03:04:08","slug":"microsoft-and-nist-partner-on-best-patch-management-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/12\/microsoft-and-nist-partner-on-best-patch-management-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and NIST partner on best patch management practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the NotPetya ransomware attack of 2017, Microsoft conducted research into why large companies were being affected even though patches were already available.\u00a0 Microsoft visited a significant number of customers and was surprised by how many challenges organizations faced with processes and standards.\u00a0 They discovered many companies failed to install patches because they simply didn&#8217;t have a patch testing procedure in place.\u00a0 Instead, they would wait a while and then ask an online forum if anyone has experienced any problems with the patches before applying them.\u00a0 In addition, Microsoft has spoken with partners like the Center for Internet Security (CIS), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).\u00a0 This led Microsoft to team up with NIST and \u201cbuild common enterprise patch management reference architectures and processes, have relevant vendors build and validate implementation instructions in the NCCoE lab, and share the results in the NIST Special Publication 1800 practice guide for all to benefit\u201d.\u00a0 They are also extending an invitation to other vendors so they can collaboratively work on addressing this problem.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/msft\/microsoft-and-nist-partner-on-best-patch-management-practices\/\">https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/msft\/microsoft-and-nist-partner-on-best-patch-management-practices\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the NotPetya ransomware attack of 2017, Microsoft conducted research into why large companies were being affected even though patches were already available.\u00a0 Microsoft visited a significant number of customers and was surprised by how many challenges organizations faced with processes and standards.\u00a0 They discovered many companies failed to install patches because they simply didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[803560],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-07-netcat-and-hellcat","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}