Hello and welcome to the Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 edition of the Sands In the NEP Storm Sunners.

Stormcast, my name is Johannes Ulrich, recording today from Jacksonville, Florida.

And this episode is brought you by the Sands.edu graduate certificate program in cyber defense operations.

And today was Apple's big annual update where they released new versions of their operating systems.

Now, these are new major versions. First of all, there are, in addition, of course, to the widely publicized new features, there are 33 vulnerabilities that were addressed across the different operating systems. You do not have to upgrade to the latest, greatest, the 26 version of the operating systems.

They also today release the minor updates for the last releases of these operating systems.

So you can for now stick with those earlier releases, basically, last year's release of the operating system.

Depends how, well, risk adverse you are, whether or not you're going to wait a little bit

to update to the 26th version of the operating system or if there is a particular feature

that you like. At this point, I haven't heard about any major issues around these updates,

other than Apple's servers being kind of slow,

and it takes quite a while to actually download many of these updates.

The older operating system updates, they appear to download pretty quickly,

so it looks like they may have

some a little bit different infrastructure or some load sharing setup or so to prioritize a little bit

these older operating systems. So that should be an easier upgrade. One thing I'm interested in

if someone went ahead and upgraded,

if there are any security issues that you have in a sense,

any existing security software that you have installed on these systems

that no longer works.

At this point, I haven't really seen any real problems there.

I saw some reports about Palo Alto Networks Global Protect,

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