Two days ago  Microsoft released an unprecedented 13 patches, covering 34 vulnerabilities and roughly requiring 30MB of code to fully patch a system. 

Microsoft has rated several of these vulnerabilities as critical and recommends rapid adoption of these patches as exploits are expected to begin circulating for several in the next few days.  No small task when you’re talking about thousands of endpoints.

McAfee customers using Total Protection for Endpoint were once again secured by zero-day protection enabled by default.  With this protection, IT teams patch less frequently and urgently to save time, money, and effort.

McAfee VirusScan’s buffer overflow protection is expected to provide proactive protection against exploits of 22 out of 34 new vulnerabilities this month. McAfee’s Host Intrusion Prevention is expected to provide proactive protection against exploits of 22 out of 34 new vulnerabilities this month, including enhanced exploit reporting beyond VirusScan’s General Buffer Overflow Protection.

Other security vendors will be working around-the-clock with Microsoft on new signature updates to address these vulnerabilities. 

(This post was co-authored by Evelyn DeSouza and Scott Taschler, a McAfee systems engineer.)

Tags: Compliance, data breach, Data Protection, Patch Tuesday