# Maintenance of Everything : A Review

DevFeed: [Maintenance of Everything : A Review](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/maintenance-of-everything-a-review-39491.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.philvenables.com/post/maintenance-of-everything-a-review>)

Author: Phil Venables

Published: 2026-04-18T10:45:19Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Risk and Cyber](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/risk-and-cyber.md>)

Topics: [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintenance.md>), [risk-management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/risk-management.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reliability.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>)

Tags: [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintenance.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>), [risk-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risk-management.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>)

## AI overview

A review of Stewart Brand's book Maintenance of Everything, discussing the importance of maintenance in technology risk management, security, and reliability. It also questions cybersecurity benchmarking that focuses on inputs such as budgets instead of outcomes such as control effectiveness.

## Source excerpt

I haven't done a book review for a while and there's no better way to get back to this than a look at Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything . Stewart developed a lot of this book in an open editing process and so the final delivery of what is Part 1 of a forthcoming series was all the more anticipated. I've long been obsessed with the need for maintenance in the context of technology risk management, security and reliability. A big part of technical debt build up and the security...