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Server updates - OS updates
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To ensure secure operation, servers in the infrastructure have to be kept up to date. This tutorial addresses the need for OS updates of the IdM server and gives basic guidelines and recommendations.
Update strategy
Each organization has some sort of schedule to apply OS patches: weekly, monthly, quarterly, never (not a good one), etc. You can patch the OS according to your strategy, but we recommend to perform patching at least once every three months. IdM relies on packages and libraries from the operating system and if those are not patched, security of the whole IdM solution also deteriorates.
Things to consider
Before applying updates, there are few things to consider: