2019 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Online > Web How-to Article > New England

Awarded to

Michael Nadeau, Senior Editor; Susan Bradley, Contributing Writer

Entry details

Patching Windows for Spectre and Meltdown: A complete guide

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Publication name: CSO
Publishing company: IDG
Website home page: http://www.csoonline.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

CSO provides IT security leaders with in-depth analysis they need to protect their organizations' data and reputation. Areas of focus include security awareness, cloud security, ICS security, physical security, network security, data protection, risk management, fraud and loss prevention, privacy, and identity and access management. We write for security executives (CSO, CISO, and VP security) and security professionals, as well as a broad and expanding range of IT and business leaders who have responsibility for strengthening their organizations' security posture.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

Spectre and Meltdown are a trio of vulnerabilities that affect nearly every computer chip manufactured in the last 20 years. The fixes to prevent these vulnerabilities from being exploited on Windows machines include a software patch from Microsoft and a hardware BIOS or firmware update. This article walks through how to install the patches, providing commands to run and screenshots that show the resulting output at each step.

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https://www.csoonline.com/article/3293015/windows/patching-windows-for-spectre-and-meltdown-a-complete-guide.html

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