Patch Tuesday Triage: How to Handle 1,411 Fixes in One Month
Microsoft's October release fixed a record number of flaws, including three zero-days. Here is a repeatable way to sort a patch flood before the next one lands.
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Security & DevOps Specialist
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Marcus Oyelaran spent eleven years moving between platform and security teams, including four years as a security engineer embedded inside a DevOps org at a healthcare SaaS company handling PHI at scale. He's run more incident postmortems than he can count, and most of what he writes for Backtrace comes directly out of those postmortems: the secret that leaked through a build log, the IAM policy that was too permissive by one wildcard, the deploy that skipped a gate because someone was in a hurry. He holds an OSCP and spends an unreasonable amount of time arguing about supply chain security on internal Slack channels.
Microsoft's October release fixed a record number of flaws, including three zero-days. Here is a repeatable way to sort a patch flood before the next one lands.
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