Microsoft disclosed a zero-day vulnerability impacting Office and Windows on July’s Patch Tuesday. This vulnerability has an “important” severity level, and can allow attackers to perform remote code execution with the same privileges as the target. As of this writing, there is no patch available to mitigate the vulnerability, but Microsoft has provided mitigation steps.
Software vulnerability patching plays a critical role in safeguarding your code base, software, applications, computer systems, and networks against potential threats, and ensuring they’re compliant, and optimized for efficiency. Organizations’ codebases have become increasingly complex, involving sophisticated relationships between components and their dependencies.
In this episode of The Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas chats with Rebecca Harness, VP and Chief Information Security Officer at Quickbase. Quickbase is a no-code database and application development platform that enables anyone to safely build, iterate, and integrate their applications. Rebecca has 25 years of experience in information technology and over 12 years of experience in security specifically.