System hardening is a combination of tools, techniques, and best practices that successfully reduce the attack surface across your systems, applications, and IT infrastructure by identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities.
When you or your IT team install Windows updates remotely, you are doing more than just deploying security patches and remediating software vulnerabilities. You are reducing downtime, improving your company’s security posture, and, most importantly, streamlining update management across on-premises and remote endpoints without needing physical access to the machines.
KB updates, or Knowledge Base updates, are Microsoft’s systematic approach to delivering patches, security fixes, and feature improvements to your Windows operating system and other Microsoft programs.
The “cyber pandemic” has never ended; in fact, it shows no signs of slowing down and continues to set new records. If you thought 2023 marked the peak of vulnerability chaos, think again: 2024 has definitively proven otherwise. This 2025 Software Vulnerability Ratings Report presents us with a clear picture: vulnerabilities are increasing, exploit attempts are more focused and successful than ever, and software platforms that were once considered “safe” are now under constant attack.
In this issue: June 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, vulnerabilities found in Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Windows Server 2025, and third-party vulnerabilities, including web browsers, Android, Roundcube, Cisco, HPE, Ivanti, and processors.
OS patching is the process of downloading and installing software updates that vendors release to address critical security vulnerabilities, fix performance bugs, improve your system’s overall performance, and introduce the latest software features.
Integrating Action1 with Microsoft Intune allows SMBs and enterprises to benefit from crystal-clear visibility, automated patch management, stronger endpoint security, and control across their networks—from corporate-owned workstations to employee-owned devices.
Tools like Chocolatey and WinGet simplify software deployment—but at what cost? Behind the automation lies a hidden risk: outdated, unverified, and sometimes abandoned packages that introduce real threats to your software supply chain.
In this issue: May 2025 Patch Tuesday updates and third-party vulnerabilities, including web browsers, WordPress, Apache Parquet, Apple, Linux, ASUS, Python, SSH, Cisco, Lantronix XPort, Windows Task Scheduler, Industrial Control Systems, and Fortinet.
Vulnerability management refers to the process of identifying, assessing, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities in software and computer systems. Without it, your organization can easily become the next victim of the cybercriminals, because without vulnerabilities being addressed in a timely manner, your company remains exposed to attacks that could have been prevented.
At Action1, maintaining the security of your environments is our highest priority. We are informing you of a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-5480) identified in our Windows Agent, which has been resolved within the first 48 hours.
Most of the time, Windows Update does its job by automatically installing the latest updates , requiring minimal or no intervention from us. Sometimes, however, unexpected events occur, leading to the update installation becoming stuck, freezing, or stopping. In such cases, you may find yourself wondering what went wrong.
In this article, we will help you select the best patch management software for your organization; we will examine the top 10 patch management solutions in 2025, discuss the most important features to look for in a patching tool, and answer other important questions.
Update approval/decline is a helpful patch management feature that provides your IT team with granular control over which specific software updates will be deployed within your environments. Simply put, instead of automatically installing every single available update, you can review each one separately and approve or decline it based on the organization’s specific requirements.
We are thrilled to share that Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT research and consulting firm established in 1996, has recently published an impact brief highlighting Action1’s expansion of our free service tier. As recognized in EMA’s analysis, our cloud-native autonomous endpoint management platform now supports up to 200 endpoints for free, making us a pioneer in the industry to offer an AEM solution at no cost on this scale.
With Microsoft phasing out core features and modern environments demanding real-time enforcement, visibility, and cross-platform support, the writing is on the wall. This article explores why WSUS no longer fits and what the future of patch management looks like.
In this issue: April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates and third-party vulnerabilities, including web browsers, WinRAR, Apple, Linux Bootloaders, Splunk. Next.js, VMware Tools, NGINX Ingress, Veeam, Cisco, Apache Tomcat, and Fortinet.
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Group Policy is a fundamental Windows administrative framework that provides centralized management of system configurations and security protocols across networked Windows environments.