Linux Patch Management: With Security Assessment Features

Soranut Midtrapanon, Gary Wills

2019

Abstract

The lack of patch management has been identified as the main reason for many ransomware attacks. The cost of patch management is still an obstacle for many small and medium-size businesses. There are many open source, free of charge, patch management systems but these require many pre-configuration steps making them complicated to use. Hence, this paper presents a patch management system that is cost-effective but also efficient in terms of set-up time. We have written the system in Python with Puppet and Mcollective to aid the configuration steps. An additional feature of this system is the ability to assess the security of the system being patched, using CVE scanning.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Midtrapanon S. and Wills G. (2019). Linux Patch Management: With Security Assessment Features.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS, ISBN 978-989-758-369-8, pages 270-277. DOI: 10.5220/0007712502700277

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds19,
author={Soranut Midtrapanon and Gary Wills},
title={Linux Patch Management: With Security Assessment Features},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,},
year={2019},
pages={270-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007712502700277},
isbn={978-989-758-369-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS,
TI - Linux Patch Management: With Security Assessment Features
SN - 978-989-758-369-8
AU - Midtrapanon S.
AU - Wills G.
PY - 2019
SP - 270
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0007712502700277