Hardening Guide
What is Hardening Guide?
A detailed document providing step-by-step instructions for configuring a specific system or application to meet security requirements.
Terms that appear alongside hardening guide
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as hardening guide. The number is how many controls name both.
- hardening 5 shared controls
- secure configuration 3 shared controls
- baseline 2 shared controls
- tamper detection 2 shared controls
- configuration baseline 2 shared controls
- iec 62443 2 shared controls
- nist 2 shared controls
- authentication 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on hardening guide
Requirements naming hardening guide across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Measure the size of shipped hardening guides and make it shrink with each release by turning their contents into the default configuration, a result that depends on partnership with customers and product teams including user experience.
secure-by-design-a-guide-for-manufacturers-cisa::DF-7 · Track and reduce hardening guide size →Secure configuration guidance, in the form of a hardening guide or loosening guide, is produced and made available to consumers as part of software development.
ISM-1798 · Secure configuration guidance for consumers →ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure controls cover the underlying compute + network + storage + management plane. (1) Virtual Network Segmentation: VPC Virtual Private Cloud isolation + subnets + security groups + NACLs + microsegmentation + service mesh (Istio + Linke...
ISMAP-CloudInfrastructure-NetworkSegmentation-Container-Serverless-WorkloadProtection-Hardening-ConfigManagement · ISMAP Cloud Infrastructure - VPC Network Segmentation + Container/Serverless Security + Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) + Image/Template Hardening + CIS Benchmarks + Configuration Management + IaC →Agencies should harden host operating systems in line with an agency hardening guide or another approved hardening guide.
new-zealand-information-security-manual-nzism::22.2.14.C.05 · 22.2.14.C.05 Harden virtualisation host operating systems →Questions people ask about hardening guide
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