Since 2019, Snyk and Dynatrace have partnered with a shared mission of securing the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) and accelerating digital transformation. As many agile organizations migrate their workloads to the cloud, it’s tempting for teams to let security take a back-seat until all the pieces of the infrastructure puzzle are in place.

It’s the last Patch Tuesday update of 2021, and as with many other updates this year, this month’s list includes important ones — among them a zero-day (CVE-2021-43890 in AppX installer), multiple critical vulnerabilities and a variety of attack types utilized in several Microsoft product families — highlighting once again that patching and prioritization are prominent programs SecOps staff must regularly implement to keep adversaries from infiltrating their organizations’