Chapter 2. Hardening Systems
The objective of hardening a system is to reduce the attack surface of the system, minimizing the opportunities for an attacker to exploit your system. Every system should be hardened to a standard, baseline level of security. The servers holding your most sensitive information assets and services should be hardened to a higher level.
In addition to implementing security controls, such as having and enforcing a security policy, physically securing your sensitive servers, providing regular user security awareness training, implementing a strong password policy, and implementing security following the principle of least ...
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