From the course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians by Pearson

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Cybersecurity best practices

Cybersecurity best practices

From the course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals for IT Technicians by Pearson

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Cybersecurity best practices

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So let's talk about cybersecurity best practices. Now, it's very important that you think about regularly updating and patching your devices. You need to fix vulnerabilities, P-certs or security threats, updates in software just make things more stable. You need to think about that. You also need to think about what happens if you do not update. Potentially, you get into the point where you've gone so long without updating that when you do want to update, it becomes such a big forklift upgrade that you have to do that it's very detrimental to your services and your systems. The other thing is that if you wait so long, you may actually be at risk and be breached because you are not fixing some of the security posture issues that you have been informed about, which is definitely where you do not want to be. The other thing is when you think about passwords, again, we talked about this in a different lesson, but extremely strong, unique passwords that are stored in a password manager…

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