From the course: Learning the OWASP Top 10 (2025 Version)
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Defending against security misconfiguration
From the course: Learning the OWASP Top 10 (2025 Version)
Defending against security misconfiguration
Security misconfiguration is among the most preventable categories of vulnerabilities, yet it continues to contribute to some of the most damaging breaches. Modern systems are highly dynamic, built from Cloud services, APIs, containers, and automation pipelines that change every day. With this level of complexity, new services and deployments can introduce configuration drift or insecure defaults. To defend against misconfiguration, organizations need secure by default baselines, continuous automation, and environment-specific guardrails that stop risky settings before they reach production. Let's start with configuration hardening. Hardening means configuring a system to a secure operational baseline appropriate for its intended use, disabling unused ports or services, enforcing strong authentication on administrative interfaces, removing unnecessary software, and narrowing permissions to the minimum privileges required for that workloads function. It also includes eliminating…
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