Hardening, vulnerability management, SIEM, EDR, identity and access, and incident response phases.
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- What is hardening?
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Process of reducing attack surface by disabling unnecessary services and features- What is a baseline configuration?
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Known secure state used as reference for system hardening- Define least privilege principle
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Users should have minimum permissions needed for their role- What is network segmentation?
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Dividing network into isolated zones to limit lateral movement- What is patch management?
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Process of applying updates to fix security vulnerabilities- What is secure configuration management?
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Maintaining hardened configurations across systems- What is privilege escalation?
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Unauthorized gain of higher-level access rights- What is a honeypot?
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Decoy system designed to detect unauthorized access attempts- What is vulnerability scanning?
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Automated tool that probes systems to identify weaknesses- What is vulnerability assessment?
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Systematic review to identify security weaknesses- What is compliance scanning?
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Auditing systems against security baselines and standards- What is remediation?
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Process of fixing identified vulnerabilities- How is vulnerability remediation priority determined?
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By severity, exploitability, and asset value- What is a false positive?
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Security alert for activity that is not actually a threat- What does DLP stand for?
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Data Loss Prevention
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