Articles on patch management: practical cyber security and technology leadership insights for UK SMEs, written by James Griffiths.
Third-party risk is now one of the biggest blind spots in UK cyber security. Most attacks still land through simple things like phishing and poor patching, but when something really disruptive happens, a supplier is often involved somewhere in the chain. Government and NCSC-aligned data backs this u
Source: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0329/240329.pdf The UK government has published the Bill to overhaul and extend the regulatory regime for network and information systems (NIS) in the UK. At its heart the Bill amends the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018
In October 2025, one of the most significant supply-chain-adjacent cybersecurity incidents in recent years came to light: the Seattle-based network security and application-delivery firm F5 admitted that a “highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor” had achieved long-term unauthorised access to
Release Date: 12 August 2025 Applicable Version: Windows 11 version 24H2 Build Number: 10.0.26100.4946 (OS Build) Patch ID: KB5063878 1. Context and Significance Every second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft delivers its highly anticipated Patch Tuesday updates. In August 2025, this rollout encompass