Under industry-recognized change-management best practices, how should an IT operations team handle minor configuration adjustments-such as tweaking an application parameter or updating a log path-in order to maintain security and accountability?
The change-management process is required only when introducing new hardware platforms; software configuration tweaks are exempt.
All configuration changes, including minor adjustments, must be documented and processed through the established change-management workflow, even if the review is expedited.
Only emergency changes require documentation; routine or minor changes can be applied directly to production systems without formal review.
Minor configuration changes may skip the change-management process as long as they are performed by senior administrators and recorded in personal notes.
Best practice requires that every change to a production system be routed through the organization's documented change-management process. Even though minor or "standard" changes may follow a streamlined or pre-approved workflow, they must still be logged, evaluated for risk, and retained in change records so that the environment can be audited, problems traced, and rollbacks performed if necessary. Allowing any change-no matter how small-to bypass documentation undermines accountability and can introduce hidden vulnerabilities.
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