Security News > 2021 > August > August 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: Dealing with emergency patching

If you use Microsoft's security only updates each month, be sure to include the security only out-of-band updates for your operating systems, because they must be installed for the PrintNightmare fix; they were not included in the Patch Tuesday set of security only updates.

The release of zero-day updates, particularly one of this magnitude, provides an excellent opportunity to validate your emergency patching policies and procedures.

While your normal monthly patch cycle may take 2 weeks of testing, you are usually only testing a single update here, so an accepted observation period may be just 2 days before the live rollout.

August 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast Nothing out of the ordinary on operating system and application support this month, although I predict the number CVEs addressed this month will drop well below last month.

Google released a stable channel update for Chrome OS to 92.0.4515.130 on August 2nd and several beta channel updates for other products this week so don't expect a security release next week.

Mozilla last provided security updates for Firefox and Thunderbird on July Patch Tuesday, so I think we will get a new set next week.

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