Securing systems

Question 1

What are the top 5 ways to secure systems?

Answer 1

regular patching, antivirus,logging, disabling of unused services , and firewalls

Question 2

What does reducing the attack surface do?

Answer 2

less chance of attacker finding a way in

Question 3

what is DLP?

Answer 3

data loss prevention. prevents data leakage and protect data

Question 4

why should a naming scheme be used?

Answer 4

Helps keep uniformity and understand purpose of that machine

Question 5

what is a host based intrusion detection system?

Answer 5

ids that monitors a endpoint for security violations