Hardening Flashcards

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Hardening

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Act of configuring an operating system securely by updating it, creating rules and policies to govern it, and removing unnecessary applications and services

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Least Functionality

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Process of configuring workstation or server to only provide essential applications and services

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SCCM

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Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Management

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Application Whitelist

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Only applications that are on the list are allowed to be run by the operating system while all other applications are blocked

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Application Blacklist

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Any application placed on the list will be prevented from running while all others will be permitted to run

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Trusted Operating System

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§ An operating system that meets the requirements set forth by government and has multilevel security
§ Windows 7 (and newer)
§ Mac OS X 10.6 (and newer)
§ FreeBSD (TrustedBSD)
§ Red Hat Enterprise Server
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Patches

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A single problem-fixing piece of software for an operating system or application

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Hotfix

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A single problem-fixing piece of software for an operating system or
application

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Security Update

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Software code that is issued for a product-specific security-related vulnerability

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Critical Update

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Software code for a specific problem addressing a critical, nonsecurity bug in the software

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Service Pack

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A tested, cumulative grouping of patches, hotfixes, security updates, critical updates, and possibly some feature or design changes

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