Patch Management Strategies
IT Security
| Intermediate
- 14 Videos | 1h 10m 12s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
This course explores benefits of employing a patch management strategy, and its importance to overall security. In this 14 videos, you will learn patch management concepts, and management methodologies including baselining, hardening, and backout plans. Learners will examine best practices, what to do when vendor-specific issues occur, and how to get issues patched before they become a threat. You will learn to analyze and assess patches before implementation, and how to use several tools and techniques to patch and harden systems. You will also learn how to implement patches, and how to automate the process. Next, examine testing and configuration management, and patch management, by using both open-source and commercial tools. You will learn to use the patch rollout process and policies for patch updates. You will learn how patch management can use the Agile software development process, which uses cross-functional teams to make the process more efficient; its goal is to deliver software on regular intervals. Finally, you will learn to create and implement a patch strategy in a serverless architecture.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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discover the key concepts covered in this coursedefine patch management for incident response and describe how patch management affects the incident response team and the Security Operations Centerdescribe the benefits and importance of a patch management strategyprioritize and rate the importance of patches for the software development environmentdescribe the baselining, hardening, and how to develop a backout plandescribe testing and configuration management in patch managementdescribe vendor patches and how to implement them
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recognize the open source and commercially available tools that are used for patch managementdescribe the process of rolling out patches in a patch management program and patch update policiesrecognize the various tools and techniques for automating patch implementations in organizations and the benefits they providedescribe patch management in an Agile environmentdescribe patching for serverless systems and the benefits of patching strategies using serverless systemsrecognize proper organizational patching strategies, how they are implemented, and the benefits of the implementation methodssummarize the key concepts covered in this course
IN THIS COURSE
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1.Course Overview1m 44sUP NEXT
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2.Patch Management4m 59s
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3.Benefits of Patching3m 6s
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4.Prioritizing in Patch Management6m 2s
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5.Patch Management Methodology5m 23s
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6.Testing and Configuration Management3m 51s
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7.Vendor-specific Patch Management7m 31s
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8.Patch Management Tools8m 59s
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9.Patch Rollout and Policies3m 33s
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10.Automating Patch Management8m
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11.Patch Management and Agile4m 56s
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12.Serverless Patch Management7m 2s
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13.Implementing a Patch Management Program3m 56s
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14.Course Summary1m 11s
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