From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 7 Software Deployment, Operations, and Maintenance
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Patch management
From the course: CSSLP Cert Prep: 7 Software Deployment, Operations, and Maintenance
Patch management
- [Instructor] Over time, you'll likely release patches to your software to address both functional issues and new security requirements. Having a patch management process is an important step in applying these fixes in a safe and secure manner. when something doesn't work right in your app, or when someone discovers a security flaw, you want to take action to address those issues. The good news is that you don't need to rewrite the entire app from the ground up. Instead, you can find the code responsible for the flaw and replace the bad code with updated code. This process of applying these small fixes, is what we mean by patch management. Sometimes these flaws look like easy fixes and there're countless developers who have realized too late that their efforts to push a quick fix to production, created a massive and more complicated than the original flaw. Your patch management process is intended to replace these ad hoc…