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Cybersecurity Concepts – How to Secure the System
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locations, helps keep your patch management efforts up to date. It is therefore
important to inventory your network on a regular basis.
● Perform application patching
Many limitations of OS platform support and discovery services lie in accounting for
only applications from a specific OS and ignoring third-party software. Much of
Windows software vulnerabilities come from non-Microsoft applications running on
Windows, which means you not only need comprehensive OS coverage, but also
comprehensive application coverage.
● Apply coverage on and off premise
Patching your OS and applications will be meaningless, however, if not done for every
computer in every location. Users can work remotely without ever touching the
network, but the network must secure these users as if they were on premise. Patch
management systems and other security controls should provide the same level of
coverage and control off premise as they do on premise.
● Patch frequently
As more end user systems can leave the network, patching frequency becomes more
important. You may be following the patching patterns of prominent tech influencers,
but they could be wrong for you. Microsoft may keep to a predictable security patch
release cycle, but most other vendors have unpredictable release schedules.
NOTICE
End of Life IT Components
IT components must be replaced as soon they pass their End of Life. EOL IT does
not meet today’s needs for cybersecurity.
Use a Test System
Siemens cannot guarantee that updating of third-party components can be used
without consequences on the operation of the overall system. Depending on the
criticality of the system, we recommend establishing a release process.