Device Hardening Articles
Read articles from industry experts New Net Technologies to find out about best practices in keeping your IT systems secure.
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Security Best Practice advocates the minimizing of your IT systems' 'Attack Surface'. By using CIS Benchmark secure configuration guidance we can harden systems against attack. Known vulnerabilities can be removed and defenses strengthened by applying an expert-derived configuration policy.
In the UK, HM Government’s ‘Cyber Incident Response Scheme’ is closely aligned with intent and purpose to the forthcoming US Cyber Threat Sharing Bill.
Being the heart of any corporate application means your database technology must be implemented and configured for maximum security. Whilst the desire to ‘get the database as secure as possible’ appears to be a clear objective, what does ‘secure as possible’ mean? How hard is it to derive a suitable hardened build standard for your Oracle or SQL Server database?
Finding and interpreting the right hardening checklist for your Linux hosts can be a challenge. This guide gives you a concise checklist to work from, encompassing the highest priority hardening measures for a typical Linux server.
Prevention of security breaches is always seen as the best approach to protecting key data assets. Hardening a server in line with acknowledged best practices in secure configuration is still the most effective means of protecting your Server data. Deriving the right checklist for your Server 2008 estate requires an iterative process, starting with an ‘off the shelf’ hardening checklist and comparing this to your current hardened build standard for Server 2008.
Despite the increased sophistication employed by hackers for both external and internal attacks, around 80% of all reported breaches continue to exploit known, configuration-based vulnerabilities. Server or system hardening is, quite simply, essential in order to prevent a data breach.
Any information security policy or standard will include a requirement to use a ‘hardened build standard’. The concept of hardening is straightforward enough, but knowing which source of information you should reference for a hardening checklist when there are so many published can be confusing.
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