Case Study – The importance of routine maintenance

Cyber criminals and other bad guys only need an open door to wreak havoc on your IT environment and ruin your day, week or, if you’re that one guy that failed to update the Equifax servers, your career in seconds.  We recently worked with a non-profit organization whose website was replaced with images of “attractive ladies” by a threat actor that was able to leverage an unpatched vulnerability in a WordPress plugin to gain full access to the website and ultimately replace it with something that was definitely not their non-profit. If you have an organization with IT resources from websites to email to servers to workstations to switches and firewalls, it’s crucial to keep up with and regularly apply vendor applied updates.  As we noted in an earlier article about how the MyIT Program can prevent real-world attacks, the bad guys are always looking for an exposed vulnerability in a website, web server, remote desktop server or anything to get a foothold in your organization.  One easy way to minimize the chances that they win is to make sure that you’re not leaving any doors open for them.

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