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Proactive System Hardening: Continuous Hardening’s Coming of Age

| | Featured Articles, Hardening Guidelines, IT Security and Data Protection, Security Configuration Management, system hardening, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability scanners
The first article in this series examined configuration hardening—essentially looking at ports, processes and services where security configuration management (SCM) is key. The second article looked at application and version hardening strategies ...
The State of Security

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 ...
The State of Security