Your company may have invested in necessary system changes and retention bonuses for Y2K, or paid for extended support for XP after the deadline; but perhaps the web browser might be a bigger deal – heck it can be the attack vector. Since it is relied upon the minute you browse the Internet and so it does not take unauthorized internal perimeter access or successful phishing attack / social engineering or sophisticated XSS/CRF/Clickjacking targeting the Application that the browser communicates with…
Estimates have it that approximately 20% of browser traffic use IE 8/9/10 – yet the support/patch is set to expire Tuesday. Where did the 18 months go? This was the allotted time Microsoft provided for your custom applications to be reviewed, migrated, integration, etc. So, given the state of cybersecurity awareness and innumerable breaches these days, might be a good idea to upgrade to IE 11 ASAP. Otherwise, there’s #Chrome and a few other browsers
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