Chapter 14
System Hardening and Baselines
Lab Exercises
14.01 Active Directory Domain Services and Domain Connectivity
14.02 Organizational Units and Groups
14.03 Users and Other Active Directory Objects
14.04 Permissions and Shares
14.05 Group Policy Objects
Lab Analysis
Key Term Quiz
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines hardening at https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/Hardening as follows:
A process intended to eliminate a means of attack by patching vulnerabilities and turning off nonessential services.
System hardening eliminates needless functionality and involves the deployment of configurations and settings that are secure. This reduces the risk of the exploitation of vulnerabilities and also allows ...
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