Security News > 2022 > August > Resolving Availability vs. Security, a Constant Conflict in IT

In this article, we'll look at the availability vs. security conflict, and a solution that helps to resolve that conflict.

In practice, security teams can make a demand that a system must go down for patching right now and not two weeks from now, reducing availability in order to patch immediately - never mind what the consequences are for users.

Worse, where high availability really helped ops teams to achieve their availability and stability goals it can in fact make matters worse for security teams who now must take care of an exponentially increased number of servers, or services, all of which require protecting and monitoring.

Ultimately, you either patch faster for secure operations at the expense of availability or performance, or patch more slowly and take unacceptable risks with security.

A simple, effective way to resolve the conflict between availability and security.

So to wrap up, in the availability vs. security conflict, live patching is the one tool that can significantly reduce the tension between operations and security teams.

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/08/resolving-availability-vs-security.html