Blogs About Legacy Security

In late 2023, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 reached their end of life. Microsoft is ending free updates, bug fixes, and technical support to an operating system still used in hundreds of thousands of enterprise servers.

Cyberattacks targeting critical OT and industrial organizations rose by 87% last year—the threat level to OT is higher than ever, and threat actors are finding new ways to compromise OT environments.

Legacy Microsoft operating systems (OSs) will probably be with us until the universe’s heat death. OS usage statistics show the total market share of legacy operating systems is still above 10 percent. With the total Windows installation base of 1.3...

As of January 10th 2023, Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1, their Windows embedded derivatives, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will no longer receive patches from Microsoft. Millions of devices will now become "legacy" and create a suite of new legacy security...