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Epic: Security Planning shall support expectations presented in pre-sales presentations. Updated with review comments for Patch set 4 Updated with review comments for Patch set 3 Updated with review comments from Patch set 2 Updated with review comments from Patch set 1 Added summaries of items raised in pre-sales presentations Change-Id: Ic1e458dfd57ad7ab18923f3a1756007ad717efe1
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Security Hardening Introduction
Platform infrastructure hardening is an obligatory task for achieving resilience to infrastructure attacks and complying with regulatory requirements.
Hackers attack on an ongoing basis using various cyber-attack techniques that are called attack vectors.
nodes must be hardened to reduce the increasing amounts of dynamically emerging cyber-attacks.
provides a broad number of features related to system security. The scope of this document is to provide information about these security features to support best practice security hardening along with knowledge about the features' various impacts on operation and performance.
The security hardening features can be classified into the following layers:
- Operating System hardening
- Platform hardening
- Application hardening
This appendix covers the security features hardening the operating system and platform. Application hardening is not in the scope of this document.