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Security hygiene

Security hygiene

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Security hygiene

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- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson on security hygiene. In this lesson, we're first going to talk about some basic security hygiene, and then after that we'll talk about patching, baselining, and then how we can use patching and baselining together. So first off, we have basic security hygiene. And something important to point out with this is that the reason it's considered basic is because you should be doing some or even all of these practices to ensure we're meeting kind of a minimum standard for maintaining our security in our environments. So, the first one is going to be continuous vulnerability scanning so that we can constantly be aware of what vulnerabilities actively exist within our environment, so that we can start to develop either mitigation plans to contain those vulnerabilities or remediation plans to remove them entirely. On top of that, we should be maintaining and updating our asset inventories because knowing what types of assets we have in any environment and…

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