{"id":17669,"date":"2022-06-16T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/microsoft-slammed-over-slow-security-patching"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:59:04","slug":"microsoft-slammed-over-slow-security-patching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/microsoft-slammed-over-slow-security-patching","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft slammed over slow security patching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Image credit: Mark Pickavance)Several cybersecurity firm have criticized Microsoft for what they claim are slow and opaque patching practices. Orca Security and Tenable have both been quite vocal on how Microsoft handles high-severity vulnerabilities. The former says it has been trying to get Microsoft to fix a critical issue in Azure&#8217;s Synapse Analytics since early January 2022, and after a lot of back and forth, as well as two failed attempts, the company finally managed to provide a patch for user endpoints (opens in new tab), properly, only on April 15. Tenable has also voiced its dissatisfaction with how the Synapse issue was resolved, the publication further found. In a LinkedIn post (opens in new tab), the company&#8217;s Chairman and CEO, Amit Yoran, said there&#8217;s a &#8220;lack of transparency&#8221; Microsoft showed, just a day before the embargo on privately disclosed vulnerabilities lifts.Share your thoughts on Cybersecurity and get a free copy of the Hacker&#8217;s Manual 2022 (opens in new tab).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several cybersecurity firm have criticized Microsoft for what they claim are slow and opaque patching practices. Orca Security and Tenable have both been quite vocal on how Microsoft handles high-severity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,131],"tags":[154,155,34],"class_list":["post-17669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software","tag-computers","tag-software","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}