Chapter 16. Maintenance Strategies and Administrative Practices

Hardening systems and operations, providing protection for data, and applying security principles can build a solid security foundation. However, nothing stands still. New defensive operations and products are discovered, vulnerabilities are uncovered, and today's perfect security infrastructure becomes weaker over time. To ensure that security remains strong, you should review new discoveries, but the first step is to have sound maintenance strategies and management practices as part of the overall security plan.

Security maintenance is not the application of a new security technology, nor is it the hardening process itself. Security maintenance is a combination of managing changes ...

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