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Patching

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Patching

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- In this lesson, we're going to discuss the importance of patching your endpoints as part of your hardening efforts. After all, one of the best ways to increase the security of your workstations and servers is to ensure that you're using a good patch management program in the first place. When a software developer discovers a bug or error in their code, they're going to develop a code fix for it, and then they release a software patch. These are designed to plug any security holes in a piece of software, such as your operating system, your applications, your cloud instances, and even your firmware. Now, a formal patch management system should be used inside your organization, and this system will ensure that we have a routine method for scanning our networks for vulnerabilities and ensuring that our systems are updated with the proper software patches to prevent these vulnerabilities from being exploited. Now, patch management can be a manual process, an automated process, or a…

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