8. Maintaining Software Securely

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It’s quite easy to think of software maintenance as the Rodney Dangerfield of software development: It gets no respect. Let’s face it, in most enterprise environments, the maintenance team for a particular piece of software often is not the elite crew of developers at the tops of their careers. Why not? Simply put, it’s because developers typically want to be working on the next big piece of new software. They often disdainfully view maintaining software as grudge work.

Although we don’t disagree that this is indeed the status quo all too often, we feel that it’s disappointing and that it misses some hugely important ...

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