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System hardening

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Configuring all configurable items within an entire system to reduce the host’s security weaknesses.

MWENERC CIP-010-2 (Config Change Management & Vulnerability) v2

Senses

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

A process to eliminate as many security risks as possible by removing all nonessential software programs, protocols, services and utilities from the system

Classifications

Entity Type

Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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