Question
A company plans to upgrade its network infrastructure to enhance security and reduce the attack surface. The company has tasked the security analyst with identifying key areas to focus on while planning the upgrade.
Which of the following areas should the security analyst prioritize to directly enhance security and minimize vulnerabilities?
answer
Hardware compatibility
Log retention policies
Configuration file management
System hardening
Which of the following areas should the security analyst prioritize to directly enhance security and minimize vulnerabilities?
answer
Hardware compatibility
Log retention policies
Configuration file management
System hardening
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Configuration file management and system hardening.
Reason: managing configuration files ensures secure, consistent settings and controlled changes (reducing misconfigurations), while system hardening removes unnecessary services, applies patches and secure baselines to directly reduce the attack surface. Hardware compatibility and log retention are important operational/compliance concerns but do not as directly reduce vulnerabilities.
Reason: managing configuration files ensures secure, consistent settings and controlled changes (reducing misconfigurations), while system hardening removes unnecessary services, applies patches and secure baselines to directly reduce the attack surface. Hardware compatibility and log retention are important operational/compliance concerns but do not as directly reduce vulnerabilities.