Summary

Management of change control and administrative practices is important to ensure that security continues during production. Hardening servers and networks is part pre-production preparation and part maintenance. Security maintenance is both proactive and reactive. If enough proactive steps are taken, less reactive activity will be necessary. Components of security maintenance and administration are change control, security configuration refresh, patch management, and securing administrative tools and practices.

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