Descartes is monitoring security practices and developments in response to an industry-wide set of security vulnerabilities that have recently come to light —known as Meltdown and Spectre— that affect modern computer processors. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities within the computer processors could allow an attacker to obtain access to information and data stored on that computer. The Descartes’ IT team is currently rolling-out patches being released by the hardware manufacturers and operating system developers based on availability, testing and compatibility considerations, amongst other considerations, and using a combination of Descartes incident response and Change Management procedures in order to introduce these patches.