October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
19h 57m
English
book
Security Strategies in Linux Platforms and Applications, 3rd Edition
by Ric Messier, Michael Jang
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Keeping Up with Application Security
The developers behind most Linux distributions incorporate solutions to application-related security issues in updated packages. Red Hat and Ubuntu incorporate announcements on security issues related to applications on their main security lists, including USN and RHSA.
Just as there is a lag between the release of a security update for RHEL and CentOS, there may also be a lag between the release of a security update for an application such as the GNOME or KDE desktops on the application website and the repositories associated with the Red Hat and Ubuntu distributions. As Ubuntu and RHEL are both based at least in part on commercial enterprises and both Red Hat and Canonical offer paid support, full-time ...