Several (50+) patches were released by Microsoft yesterday as part of their patching cycle for January. Add to these out-of-band emergency patches designed to mitigate and/or resolve the vulnerabilities associated with Meltdown and Spectre, and sysadmins and security admins around the world are incredibly busy this week.
Complicating matters is the challenge of verifying your anti-virus and anti-malware software is compatible with Microsoft’s emergency patches, specifically in terms of the needed registry flags.
Take a moment and familiarize yourself with the updates from Microsoft, Adobe and others and patch accordingly once your testing is complete.