Security holes are constantly being discovered in all software. These range in severity from allowing a remote attacker to be able to crash your computer, causing a simple reboot to be necessary, through reading files stored on your computer, all the way through erasing files, or the entire drive of your computer.

The last thing you want, as a business, is someone else to have access to your data, be it a customer or supplier list, or a spreadsheet of your finances. Imagine what would happen if a competitor managed to get hold of the names of all your customers, complete with addresses and phone numbers, then erase them from your own system.

To ensure that this doesn't happen, software vendors supply patches, which, as the name suggests, plug the security hole that's been found in their software. As long as you apply these patches in a timely manner, holes will be plugged shortly after they are discovered. If you're not in the habit of checking your machines on at least a monthly basis, you'll be vulnerable, though.

As an example, the recent Blaster worm, which exploited a vulnerability discovered in Windows 2000 and XP, first appeared less than 4 weeks after the vulnerability was announced. You have to be constantly checking for new security patches in order to keep your systems secure.

Let CB Services do the checking for you. As long as we know what operating system and sensitive applications you're using, we can check what new patches are being released for that software, and either send you an email when a risky hole has been discovered, or come to your location and install the patches for you.