Security Strategies in Linux Platforms and Applications, 2nd Edition

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15	Best Practices and Emerging Technologies

YOU MIGHT VIEW SECURITY as a battle between attackers who want to break into computers and security professionals like you who are trying to keep those attackers out. As attackers find new ways to break in, open source developers respond, finding ways to prevent such attacks. It’s then up to you to keep systems up to date to protect your systems and the information stored on them. Updates may not always work, however. In some cases, attackers may break into your systems before updates are available. Some people call this type of vulnerability a zero-day vulnerability. In other cases, updates may cause problems for hardware. Some updates may even violate service agreements for third-party ...