Secure Software Systems

Maintenance

Maintenance involves the tasks taken to anticipate, respond to, and apply changes, modifications, and improvements to a system. Maintenance may be periodic and routine, or it may be applied in response to specific events and conditions. Maintenance may be performed by an organization that uses a system, by the organization that develops a system, or by both. Maintenance of systems focuses on increasing reliability, performance, and security.

While routine monitoring and operations may be performed by the day-to-day technical operations staff, often larger or specialized maintenance chores are performed by specifically assigned staff who focus on longer term, proactive changes, or possible unintended, unanticipated issues in the system ...