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We don't. That's why we use multiple layers of security. For example keeping all services accessible only via VPN and using a major OS that a lot of production workloads depend on such as Debian, Ubuntu LTS or any of the RHEL copycats. This is a huge plus of the free tier of Ubuntu Pro BTW. It's commercial level security support for $0. Using any of these OSes means that the time between a vulnerability being discovered, patched and deployed is as short as possible. Of course you have to have automatic security updates turned on,
unattended-upgradesin Debian-speak.