From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment
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From the course: Complete Guide to Linux Security: Protecting Your Linux Server Environment
Learning objectives
- I've probably said it a dozen times already. Update your Linux systems. It's critical that you do so. An update could be defined as any newly released version of a program or file in Linux, often with the intent of mitigating one or more security vulnerabilities. Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and most others, continually release security updates. These are essential to the operating system's wellbeing, but not only that. Updates to individual programs are important as well. For instance, programs that use SSH and SSL or work as web servers and so on. These should be updated ASAP as long as updates are performed within your organization's guidelines, your policies and procedures. While Linux might be a bit more secure out of the box than some other operating systems, it still is vulnerable. Remember how we said earlier that nothing is 100% secure? Linux is no exception. So we need to make sure that we update our Linux systems. In this lesson, we'll show how to…
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