20 Critical Security Controls

Proactively Hardening Systems: Application and Version Hardening

| | 20 Critical Security Controls, Featured Articles, Inventory Management, IT Security and Data Protection, Security Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability scanners
The first article in this series examined configuration hardening, essentially looking at ports, processes and services as the “doors, gates and windows” into a network where security configuration management (SCM) becomes the ...
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What is Vulnerability Management Anyway?

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Vulnerability management (VM) programs are the meat and potatoes of every comprehensive information security program. They are not optional anymore. In fact, many information security compliance, audit and risk management frameworks require ...
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Configuration Hardening: Proactively Guarding Systems Against Intrusion

| | 20 Critical Security Controls, Application Security, attacks, Council on Cybersecurity, Data Loss Prevention, Featured Articles, Hardening Guidelines, Inventory Management, IT Security and Data Protection, Security Configuration Management, Security Strategies, system hardening, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability scanners
The concept of configuration hardening has nice imagery to it. When we use it to describe battle-hardened soldiers who have been tested in combat, a grim, determined image invariably leaps to mind ...
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