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Information Security Handbook
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Information Security Handbook

by Darren Death
December 2017
Beginner
330 pages
9h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Least functionality

Modern information systems provide a great deal of capability and flexibility to the organization. As you are designing your information system, it is important to understand not just what your information system needs to do to meet business requirements, but also the operating system functionality that is not required to meet those same requirements.

You will want to ensure that you are restricting the functionality of the information system so that it operates as required while not exposing any unneeded services that can be used by an attacker to exploit the system. To achieve this, do the following:

  • Ensure that you have installed everything that you need for your information system to function as intended. This includes: ...
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ISBN: 9781788478830