hardening
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5.7
- noun
- /ˈhɑrdənɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
fortalecimiento
- The company prioritized system hardening to ensure sensitive data remained secure against cyberattacks.
Examples
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Windows XP added defense-in-depth hardening to disallow remote access for this service that does not need to be exposed remotely.
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Network hardening involves configuring security settings to protect against unauthorized access.
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So my friend end up ends up working on hardening silicon chips against nuclear war.
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I have been in the security business for many years doing network and server (DISA) hardening.
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Recently, the National Security Agency has begun testing BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, and hardening networks as cloud computing begins to take hold in defense agencies.
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What I find interesting about this is how well it fits in with the shift in attitudes in the US right around the Reagan years, in particular the advent of strong social atomization and the hardening of hierarchy.
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Therefore, a critically important part of the future U.S. defense program should be dedicated to the hardening of these systems, modifying them so they are less susceptible to countermeasures.
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"He has implemented storm hardening policies and capital expenditure programs, which have made LIPA the top most reliable overhead utility in the state," the bio says.
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Before launching the application, we focused on hardening it by removing unnecessary services and applying critical patches.
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The walls of blood vessels become thick and hard, causing less blood to flow
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Etymology
Hardening is also used in computing and keeps the idea of hard ('firm') plus -en ('to make'), so you can think of it as 'making a system firm'—like putting armor on a computer to protect it from attacks.