Security News > 2021 > January > January 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: New focus on security and software development

Many predictions said we were due for another major cyberattack leading into 2021, but no one foresaw this type of attack and the impact it had, leading to a new focus on security and software development.

The compromise of SolarWinds brings into question the security practices of all software developers, including topics such as patching of development machines, outsourcing of code development, control and understanding of code functionality through mergers and employee turnover, code reviews and other techniques to identify security issues and many others.

None of this should be new if you are a software development company, but the far-reaching impact of the SolarWinds compromise has many companies revisiting and refocusing on both the security and legal sides of their software development process.

January 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast Microsoft generally has a light set of releases in January, meaning they have a smaller subset of updates with fewer vulnerabilities addressed.

The January Patch Tuesday release completes the first year of extended security updates for Windows 7 and Server 2008.

Adobe has not provided any pre-release announcements yet, but they did release security updates for Acrobat and Reader on December Patch Tuesday.

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