Patch Management
The process of identifying, testing and deploying updates across an estate on a defined schedule, with exceptions tracked rather than silently skipped.
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More glossary terms
- Principle of Least Privilege
- Every account, process and token receives only the minimum permissions required for its task, for the minimum time required, and no more.
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Requiring two or more independent factors, something you know, have and are, so a stolen password alone cannot grant access to an account.
- Attack Surface
- The total set of points where an unauthorised user can attempt to enter or extract data: exposed ports, endpoints, features, credentials and physical...
- CVSS
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System. A 0 to 10 severity score built from exploitability and impact metrics, used to prioritise patching alongside cont...
- Zero-Day
- A vulnerability being exploited before the vendor has a patch available, so defenders have had zero days to prepare. Once a patch exists it is no long...