Website Vulnerability Patching Services

Vulnerability management has evolved as a web service over the past few years. At Flying Cow Design, we take pride in staying ahead of emerging technologies, vulnerabilities and threats to our clients’ websites and applications. We offer on-going data protection services to ensure your website and all applications and processes are up-to-date. All patches will are kept updated and new patches installed when necessary. We offer a multitude of state-of-the-art vulnerability patching services malware and phishing removal services.

How we do vulnerability patching

1. We gather all information needed from you, the client. This information includes, but is not limited to, all OS types used along with physical and IP locations.
2. If your business is not using the same OS across all devices and applications, it is essential to change them to the same one to make patching easier.
3. We maintain an updated list of all security controls used including firewalls, security software, routers, to make being proactive easier and more efficient.
4. We have state-of-the-art vulnerability scanners and reporting systems that detects and reports alerts and possible attacks. These reports are compared to the above list to see which ones could pose a security threat to your system, and which do not.
5. All vulnerabilities are assessed to determine if an attack is likely to happen. We will evaluate the severity, the level of the risk, and the cost to migrate or recover from the attack.
6. Last, we install or update all patches necessary. While installing or updating patches, we do our best not to disturb the production environment of your website. Customers will still be able to access the website and perform normal tasks.

Website code used to have simple HTML and CSS, but modern websites have a lot more functionality built in as well as connections to databases, social media, etc., making them more vulnerable to hacking, denial of service attacks and other malicious code injection.

When a website is built, it is usually secure from all vulnerabilities and threats known at that time, but hackers find new ways to break in.

• Websites can be vulnerable because of various reasons like:
• Weak passwords to admin functions.
• Code that has become out-of-date.
• Web Servers that do not keep up with security releases.

Website code does not update itself, and if you use plug-ins and modules from third parties, then each module must be evaluated for reported vulnerabilities on it and if patches are provided.

Ordinarily, new patches are released monthly, and if they are not kept up with, then hackers will return and infect your website and web applications again. Small businesses are usually the target.

Small business (SMB) website owners do not normally have security budgets to match those of large corporations. This means SMBs may not be as thorough with security issues and vulnerability management. SMBs often tend to be reactive rather than proactive when it comes to securing their website and other internet resources making them prime targets. Hackers know this and usually target smaller companies with sizeable traffic, where the vulnerabilities have gone unnoticed and unpatched.

It is cheaper to perform regular website vulnerability patching and patch management, than it is to pay the price of data loss, downtime, outage, hacking and malicious code injection. There is also the cost of a company’s reputation if their web assets are not secured properly and end up infecting their customers’ computers or pose a security threat to the customers’ privacy and personal data.