Security News > 2017 > February > Removing admin rights mitigates most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities (Help Net Security)
2017-02-23 17:20
Avecto has analyzed the security bulletins Microsoft released in the past year, and came to an important conclusion: an overwhelming majority of all the critical Microsoft vulnerabilities discovered and fixed in 2016 can be mitigated by simply removing admin rights across an organization. The numbers and percentages are as follows: 530 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products were reported in 2016, and of these 189 were of critical severity. Still, 94 percent of them could be mitigated … More →
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