# Does Cyber Crucible require a reboot to update?

<title id="bkmrk-cyber-crucible-knowl">Cyber Crucible Knowledge Base : Does Cyber Crucible require a reboot to update?</title> <link href="styles/site.css" id="bkmrk-" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" id="bkmrk--1"></meta></head><body><div id="bkmrk-created-by-dennis-un"><div class="aui-page-panel" id="bkmrk-created-by-dennis-un-1"><div id="bkmrk--2"><div id="bkmrk--3"> </div> </div><div class="view" id="bkmrk-created-by-dennis-un-2"><div class="page-metadata"> Created by <span class="author"> Dennis Underwood</span> on May 17, 2022 </div><div class="wiki-content group" id="bkmrk-yes%2C-there-are-a-var">Yes, there are a variety of memory, file system, and operating system protections Cyber Crucible software leverages to protect itself from attackers tampering or degrading its performance.

This is part of the Cyber Crucible zero trust product design in use.

Updating requires replacing the driver and services.

A window is created upon reboot, in which Cyber Crucible software allows a properly verified update to occur.

An update is ready for reboot when the following is observed in the Manage Agents page.

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