Patch management

Patch management is a process of acquiring, testing, and deploying patches across systems. These patches can be operating system level or can even be application level.

Let's look at an example of a use case of an organization.

Company XYZ is a mid-sized e-commerce organization and has around 500 servers. As a quarterly patch management cycle, for the vulnerabilities discovered, patches have to be applied:

Solution 1

In this way, the system administrator manually logs into the server and runs the yum update security command to update all the security-related system packages. This is the most manual way and takes a lot of time.

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