Over the this past weekend, companies and governments were left scrambling to prevent cyberattacks after a serious flaw was discovered in Log4j, an open software package that is used by applications and servers to log activity.
Log4j is a piece of software that is used everywhere, yet "invisible", because it's behind the scenes.
The lesson is that, for cybersecurity, companies must track, and keep patches up to date with, ALL software that they use—including unsexy, low-level packages such as Log4j.
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