Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities discovered in January 2018 showed that weaknesses in CPUs were a potential attack vector. Microsoft enabled the protections by default on workstations, but not on server platforms. A new security vulnerability called microarchitectural data sampling (MDS) also mitigated in the May updates. You must also have the necessary firmware from the manufacturer from the OEM manufacturer. You may need to determine if Intel has released a firmware update for your CPU. For systems with older processors that cant receive protect, determine if these machines need to be processing any sensitive information.”]