The Best Damn IT Security Management Book Period

Chapter 9. Vulnerability and Configuration Management

Solutions in this chapter

• Patch Management

• Building a Patch Test Lab

• Patch Distribution and Deployment

• Configuration Management

• Change Control

  Summary

Introduction

Dealing effectively with vulnerabilities in today’s networks includes not only managing and dealing with the vulnerability process itself, but also integrating the previous approach toward vulnerability assessment (leveraging scanners to discovery vulnerabilities) into the correlative frameworks and processes of patch management, configuration management, and change control. This chapter focuses on these frameworks and processes. Understanding ...