5 Key Components of Cybersecurity Hardening

Hardening in Cybersecurity Cybersecurity hardening is a comprehensive approach to keeping your organization safe from intruders, and mitigating risk. By reducing your attack surface, vulnerability is reduced in tandem. Hardening (or system hardening) considers all flaws and entry points potentially targeted by attackers to compromise your system. While innovative and determined cybercriminals will seek out any opportunity to breach your security for their gain, hardening shrinks the attack surface as much as possible, adding more difficulty to an attacker’s efforts. …

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