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A team of IT professionals with various levels of expertise lets us assign the call to the appropriate resources.

  • A team of specialists in their respective areas of expertise collaborating to help your organization implement business solution faster.  Helping you realize the ROI faster and helping your employees be more productive, thus making them happier – quicker time to value.
  • That same collaboration from this team of experts will develop an organizational-wide technology strategy.  The goal of a managed services partner is to manage your organization’s technology needs the most efficient way possible thus making your organization more efficient.  The more automated your organization is the more easily it can be supported.
  • A managed services partner is taking care of multiple clients which can provide economies of scale to your organization.  Your organization will be more open to the latest and greatest technologies which can be implemented more cost effectively
  • Utilizing the reporting and inventory services provided by WatchTower can reduce the amount of time required to deploy new IT solutions focused on increasing the new services or products provided by the client. This reduction of time to implement provides you with a quicker launch date resulting in benefits being realized quicker.

 

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It is very difficult for most organizations to truly align technology to their business goals and objectives, mainly due to lack of expertise and knowledge.  Managed services provides this expertise, by leveraging a team of experts in various technology disciplines.  The result of this knowledge and expertise are:

  • Better utilized systems that are designed to improve productivity
  • Leads to employee satisfaction and your ability to retain quality resources.
  • That combined with the creation of automated or simplify processes now gives you the ability to consolidate roles/responsibilities.
  • In essence you now can truly do more with less and maximize the profitability of your organization for the long term.

 

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  • Organizations tend to be training ground for IT professionals to learn and acquire the skill to move on to bigger and better positions.
  • Technology professionals like to be involved in the latest technology and don’t like the supporting, documenting, and day to day tasks involving with managing an existing environment.
  • Managed Services enables you to break this cycle of recruiting, training and replacing existing staff.
  • Knowledge = optimization + consolidation = leverage existing technology investments.

Enables you to focus on your business:

  • IT is primarily a tactical part of business.  Managed services will let you focus on the more important strategic aspects of your business.
  • By letting a team of technology professionals support and maintain your environment you will realize fewer disruptions, they are accountable and measured on this.
  • By taking a business perspective view of technology you should be able to purchase products that suit the long term needs of your business.  Many times organizations look to solve pin point issues that they did not think of or understand at the time and as a result and buy product on that basis.  This goes back to leveraging that team of experts who have seen and implemented like solutions many times, thus minimizing any product that is not required and getting it right the first time.
  • Reporting and trending analysis will be another service you would receive from WatchTower.  This gives you a proactive view of your technology and lets you plan ahead as opposed to reacting to issues.
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Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution

8/3/2010 10:35:03 AM

This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting validation of shortcut icon references.

Executive Summary

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

 

This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting validation of shortcut icon references.

 

This security update addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198.

 

Public Bulletin Webcast

 

Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on this bulletin:

Title: Information About Microsoft's August 2010 (Out-of-Band) Security Bulletin Release

Date: Monday, August 02, 2010, at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada).

URL: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032456779

 

Public Resources related to this alert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Security Bulletin Technical Details

 

In the following tables of affected and non-affected software, software editions that are not listed are past their support lifecycle. To determine the support lifecycle for your product and edition, visit the Microsoft Support Lifecycle website at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/.

 

Bulletin Identifier

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-046

Bulletin Title

Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2286198)

Executive Summary

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting validation of shortcut icon references. This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198.

Affected Software

This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows.

CVE, Exploitability Index Rating

  1. CVE-2010-2568: Shortcut Icon Loading Vulnerability (EI = 1)

Attack Vectors

  • A maliciously crafted shortcut file.
  • Common delivery mechanisms: a maliciously crafted Web page, an e-mail attachment, an instant message, a peer-to-peer file share, a network share, and/or a USB thumb drive.

Mitigating Factors

  • Users would have to be persuaded to visit a malicious web site.
  • Exploitation only gains the same user rights as the logged-on account. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
  • Blocking outbound SMB connections on the perimeter firewall reduces the risk of remote exploitation using file shares.

Restart Requirement

The update will require a restart.

 

Bulletins Replaced by This Update

None

Publicly Disclosed?
Exploited?

Yes – this vulnerability was publicly disclosed prior to release. More information is contained in Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198.

Yes – this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild at release.

Full Details

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-046.mspx 

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