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What is system hardening?
Hardening means making a system safer by removing what is not needed and locking what stays. Attack surface = all the ways an attacker can try to get in. Every open door is a way in. Fewer doors, fewer attacks.

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Hardening means making a system safer by removing what is not needed and locking what stays. Attack surface = all the ways an attacker can try to get in. Every open door is a way in. Fewer doors, fewer attacks.
Learn more in the lesson: 32.1 Hardening Principles