Just popping in to say i believe the Equifax hack was also do to a 'bad manual deployment' similar to this. They had a number of servers but they didnt patch on

Just popping in to say i believe the Equifax hack was also do to a 'bad manual deployment' similar to this. They had a number of servers but they didnt patch one of the servers in their system. Hackers were able to find this one server with outdated and vulnerable software and took advantage of it. I think deploys get better with time, but that initial blast of software development at a startup is insane. You literally need to do whatever it takes to get your shit running. Some of these details dont matter because initially you have no users. But if your company survives for a couple years and builds a user base, you still have the same shitty code and practices from early times.