OS Updates

How an MSSP Transformed an Upgrade Issue into a Confidence Builder for Customers

This blog series spotlights real-world moments in which network engineers use BackBox security-centric automation to save their organizations from costly downtime and surprises. Synopsis During a planned maintenance window for firewall upgrades, a BackBox Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) customer encountered an issue that required considerable time to troubleshoot and resolve. This included escalating to […]

5 Questions to Help Keep Your Network Safe

Network Vulnerability Manager (NVM) is built specifically for network administrators and designed to help them prioritize OS updates based on actual, measured, risk to the organization. Updating devices sounds easy. Just update the software, right? Every vendor tool has that capability. It should be easy. It’s not. Partially because the quality of update tooling varies

7 Steps to Improving Network Security Through Automation

When it comes to network security, we often think about vulnerabilities or exploits. About internal threats, and password compromises. We don’t often think about automation. Anything that can have a negative impact on network resiliency and its return to full operation after an ‘event’ relates to security. Automation helps keep your network humming along at

Patching Security Vulnerabilities

There’s always a layer of details that make all the difference between easy and simple. BackBox improves network security by streamlining network software upgrades for patching security vulnerabilities to be both easy and simple. First let me explain the difference between easy and simple using an example everyone in the US can understand. Just File

BackBox Network Automation for Patch Management & OS Updates

Today, network management is becoming much more challenging due to complex network environments that span cloud and hybrid work settings, a wide variety of vendors that make up an organization’s IT infrastructure, and the ongoing talent shortage in both IT and security industries. The demand for network management teams to consistently deliver services and maintain