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Host Hardening is exactly what it sounds like: the systematic strengthening of a host’s position with respect to potential security threats. To put in slightly militaristic terms, hardening is what you do when you’re digging in because you intend to be there for a while and you expect outside “interest.”
Hardening is necessary because all security [...]

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As in all things, security is important. You need to protect your home, your possession, your family, but what we are particularly concerned with here is your business and your information. A catastrophic virus infection can bring an organization to its knees if the effects are wide-spread enough and disperses across your network. You really [...]

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Any machine, whether a personal computer or a server, opens itself to significant risk by being exposed to Internet traffic. The first line of defense against the dangers that abound on the Internet is usually a firewall: a device designed to filter the connections made and data sent and received over networks to reduce the [...]

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