From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 6 Secure Lifecycle Management

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Manage licenses and archives

- [Narrator] You can reduce financial risk as well when decommissioning old and insecure versions of your software by including license cancellation and archiving policies in your control set. Let's start with license cancellation. When I say license cancellation, I'm not talking about customer licenses. CSSOPs don't own the relationship with the customers and it's best to let your accounting team handle those conversations. I'm talking about licenses for any as a service components that you build into your app. If you're leveraging APIs from connected platforms or if you're leveraging solutions from your infrastructure as a service providers, chances are there's a cost associated with those services. When you retire your app, you'll want to stop paying for integrated service licenses that you no longer need. The same holds true for any on-premise infrastructure licenses. These might include database licenses, operating…

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