From the course: Complete Guide to Enterprise Cyber Defense
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Hardening platforms
From the course: Complete Guide to Enterprise Cyber Defense
Hardening platforms
- [Instructor] Every operating system, such as Windows or Linux, comes with default settings. These defaults are made for convenience, not for security. If we leave them unchanged, we're giving attackers an easy way in. This is why system hardening matters. Most systems are designed to work straight out of the box, but that means they're not locked down. Default installs often have open ports, extra services running, and weak settings that attackers know how to find. Attackers scan the internet every day looking for these weak spots. If we don't change anything, we're an easy target. Hardening is all about changing those defaults, turning off what's not needed, closing the doors, and making the system safer from day one. When we talk about system hardening, we're really talking about making it safer. First, it means turning off what we don't need. Things like unused services, ports, or features that could be attacked.…
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