OpenAI's ChatGPT is all over the news and creating a lot of questions. The goal of this blog is to help clarify what this all means, where it's headed, and what precautions you might want to take as an organization responsible for protecting sensitive and personal data.

New England-based Firm Recognized by Security Operations Leader

PORTLAND, ME, June 7, 2023 – Systems Engineering has been named Arctic Wolf's MSP Rookie Partner of the Year for 2023.This honor recognizes the company's commitment to improving its customers' cybersecurity posture through a strategic partnership with Arctic Wolf that focuses on joint business growth and planning, engagement and training, demand generation, and executive and security practice alignment.

A common trait of successful businesses is recognizing how to optimize the value of its staff and third-party partners for sustainable growth. Organizations can maximize returns by ensuring employees focus on the high-value tasks they were hired for and finding alternatives for the business's general, repeatable, and scalable needs.

Apple has released a critical security update to address zero-day vulnerabilities in both iPhone and iPad, as well as Mac devices. If you have not already installed the most recent version to your Apple devices (16.4.1 for the iPhone and iPad, and Ventura 13.3.1 for Mac computers), please complete this update as soon as possible. 

Beginning May 8, 2023, Microsoft will implement a security upgrade within its Microsoft Authenticator application for multifactor authentication (MFA). Current users of "push notifications" within the authenticator app (our recommended method) will move to a number-matching procedure for improved sign-in security.

The rate of technology change is accelerating, along with the number of attack surfaces within a company environment. At no time was the acceleration more evident than during the height of the pandemic. Many companies had to quickly adapt and invest in technology to simply keep operating.

Systems Engineering is aware of the following vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook, Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability CVE-2023-23397. 

Microsoft rates this vulnerability as CRITICAL.