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Hardening

The process of securing a system by reducing its attack surface through disabling unnecessary services, applying patches, and configuring security settings.

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Cybersecurity Information Security CIA Triad Attack Surface Attack Vector Threat Actor Threat Model Defense in Depth Security by Design Shift Left Security DevSecOps Patch Management
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