Security Hardening Explained: Why is it Critical for Your Security Program?
Security hardening is the practice of systematically reducing the ways an attacker can get into, move through, or persist in your environment.The reason this is a priority is that the gap between "deployed" and "properly configured" is where most breaches actually live. This guide covers the core principles of hardening, how it maps to compliance requirements, and how automated tooling has changed the way mature security teams operationalize it at scale.