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Vulnerability management and patching: Part 2

Vulnerability management and patching: Part 2

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Vulnerability management and patching: Part 2

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Hi, I'm Matthew Clark. And this is Lesson 6.3: Vulnerability Management and Patching, Part 2. In this lesson, we'll discover different update types. We'll discuss over-the-air updates and identify three methods of it. And then we'll conclude by talking why I can't drive 55. There are many different types of updates, including automatic over-the-air updates in which no user intervention is required. These are generally cryptographically signed so that you can only load the images from the OEM. Maybe the device will reboot or maybe it won't. You may or may not know about it. The next type is over-the-air. They're manually initiated cryptographically signed updates. Different types of devices do this. It requires a device user to stop what they're doing and to kick that off. Some of the security cameras that I use around the home provide that. They tell me that there's an update and wait for me to initiate it. Of course, there's the over-the-air manually initiated unsigned updates…

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