Hardening
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
Configuring a host’s operating systems and applications to reduce the host’s security weaknesses.
Framework senses
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- Hardening is the process of identifying and fixing vulnerabilities on a system.
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- The process of securing a computer's administrative functions or inactivating those features not needed for the computer's intended business purpose.
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- Configuring a host’s operating systems and applications to reduce the host’s security weaknesses.
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- Configuring a host’s operating systems and applications to reduce the host’s security weaknesses.
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- the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
- §2
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- §3
- abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue