Foundations of maintenance and system updates
We’ve covered how to protect access to your data up to this point, as well as how to protect it while it’s in transit and at rest. Even after these safeguards are in place, a data engineer must continue to work to ensure data security and privacy. Your data security infrastructure requires ongoing maintenance and regular system updates to adapt to new threats and compliance requirements, just as with a well-tuned engine.
Regular updates and version control
Regular system updates include minor fixes, significant upgrades, and new feature additions, and they go hand in hand with software patching. It’s essential to have a clear schedule in place before putting these updates into action. Updates are first implemented in a development or testing environment before being rolled out in the production system, and this staged approach frequently works well. Here, version control systems (VCSs) can be extremely helpful...
