Hardening

Question 1

Hardening

Answer 1

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

Question 2

TOS

Answer 2

Trusted Operating System:
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

Question 3

Patch/Hotfix

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Security Update

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Critical Update

Answer 5

Software code for a specific problem addressing a critical, non-security bug in the software

Question 6

Service Pack

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Patch Management:

Answer 7

Process of planning, testing, implementing, and auditing of software patches

Large organizations centrally manage updates through an update server

Disable the wuauserv service to prevent Windows Update from running automatically

It is important to audit the client’s status after patch deployment

Question 8

Group Policy

Answer 8

A set of rules or policies that can be applied to a set of users or computer accounts within the operating system

Access the Group Policy Editor by opening the Run prompt and enter gpedit

Question 9

Baselining

Answer 9

Process of measuring changes in the network, hardware, and software environment

A baseline establishes what is normal so you can find deviations

Question 10

File Systems

Answer 10

Windows: NTFS, FAT32
Apple: HFS+, APFS
Linux: ext3, ext4