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Enterprise Security Hardening
Networked systems provide a gateway to useful information and applications, but also invite potential attacks through that entry. Organizations must protect themselves from the threat of cyber-terrorism, sabotage, espionage, and intruders who are interested in stealing confidential information. Only putting up firewalls to guard against outsiders while leaving internal networks and systems wide open is simply naive.
Security hardening helps ensure that all security configuration decisions and settings are adequate and appropriate. InfoSight's Security Hardening services help organizations protect internal networks and systems against these threats. Following a Vulnerability Assessment, this service is essential to remediation of all vulnerabilities and will assure compliance with auditing standards.
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What is
Security Hardening?
Enterprise security hardening is a process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability. The more a system does, the larger its vulnerability surface. Reducing available vectors of attack typically includes the removal of unnecessary software, unnecessary usernames or logins and the disabling or removal of unnecessary services. Methods of enterprise security hardening may involve, among other measures, applying a patch; closing open network ports; and setting up intrusion detection systems, firewalls and intrusion prevention systems. There are also hardening scripts and tools that can deactivate unneeded features in configuration files or perform various other protective measures.
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