Many outages and security gaps are self-inflicted: a rushed firewall change, an untested patch, a setting nobody remembers changing. Change management is the process that controls how changes are proposed, evaluated, approved, implemented and reviewed. Configuration management is the related discipline of knowing and controlling the approved configuration of each system. Together they protect integrity and availability and give you an audit trail.
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