Here we are in the fourth quarter of what was a dynamic year. We are settling into the realities of a post-pandemic environment, where supply chain pressures continue to linger, new workarounds have been born, and backup plans tend to be a new reality; it seems to pivot is the verb of the moment.

Systems Engineering is aware of the following security vulnerability in Fortinet operating systems, FortiOS: CVE-2022-40684 / FG-IR-22-377.

Systems Engineering was recently named one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Maine. This marks the ninth consecutive year the company has been recognized and honored as an employer benefiting the state's economy, its workforce, and businesses.

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On Tuesday, August 23, an advisory notification was released by VMware, the virtualization technology software firm, announcing a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2022-31676). Updates are available to remediate this vulnerability in affected VMware products.

Backing up your critical data should be a fundamental part of every data protection strategy. With ransomware breaches and recovery costs nearly doubling over the last year, at 66% up from 37% and $1.85M up from $760K respectively, organizations cited data backups as the #1 method used to restore compromised data.

For years now, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been at the top of the cybersecurity best practices list. MFA has proven to curb data breaches due to compromised credentials (usernames and passwords), and according to Microsoft, 99.9% of cyber-attacks on company accounts are preventable with properly deployed MFA. This is a statistic no business leader can afford to ignore.