From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 2 Asset Security

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Supply chain vulnerabilities

Supply chain vulnerabilities

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 2 Asset Security

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Supply chain vulnerabilities

- [Instructor] Every IT organization depends upon hardware, software and services provided by outside vendors. Whether that comes in the form of server operating systems, database platforms, applications, managed services or other technologies, administrators must understand how security issues arising in the supply chain can impact their organizations. One of the most important vendor related issues that security professionals must monitor are the end-of-life announcements made by vendors about products used within the organization. Every security professional knows that patch management is an incredibly important security issue and staying current on patches, protect systems against the many new vulnerabilities that are discovered each year. When a vendor announces the end-of-life of a product, they are announcing that they will eventually no longer provide patches for that product even when new vulnerabilities are…

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