Upgrading Third-Party Libraries and Software
Understand how to identify and manage third-party libraries and software in your organization. Learn to automate upgrades and testing to ensure security patches are applied promptly without breaking functionality. This lesson helps safeguard systems by keeping dependencies current and ready for rapid response to vulnerabilities.
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Good patching practices
When defending ourselves against the risks implicit in third-party libraries, we need to know what third-party software we use. It takes a surprisingly large amount of effort to discover this.
Once we know what’s in use, we need the ability to quickly upgrade any of the third-party libraries and any software deployed in our organization.
What’s more, we need to be able to test these upgrades so that we can be confident that the ...