Hardening and Secure Configuration: Ports, Baselines, Benchmarks, and Security Scoring
Date: 29 October 2026 | Posted by: 0nelove
Hardening and Secure Configuration: Ports, Baselines, Benchmarks, and Security Scoring
Released 10/2026
With Rahul Kaundal and Itelcotech
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + subtitle | Duration: 2h 8m | Size: 459.5 MB
Get a comprehensive, practical, and example-driven intro to system hardening and secure configuration. Learn how to reduce attack surface and protect systems through configuration management.
Course details
This course provides a comprehensive, practical, and example-driven introduction to system hardening and secure configuration, designed for IT professionals, system administrators, security practitioners, and technical leaders seeking to understand how to reduce attack surface and protect systems through disciplined configuration management. Begin by exploring the foundational concepts of system hardening, including what hardening is, why secure configuration matters, the risks posed by default configurations, and how hardening contributes to attack surface reduction. Then examine secure configuration fundamentals, including configuration baselines, secure build standards, configuration drift, and the important distinction between hardening and patching. Examine ports, services, and protocols, including commonly used network ports, the difference between allowed and blocked ports, how to identify and disable unnecessary services, and how port management reduces organizational exposure to attacks. Learn about operating system hardening in detail, including Windows Server and Linux Server hardening basics, account and password policy hardening, file system and permission hardening, and secure administrative access. Study endpoint and workstation hardening, including local admin rights control, application control and software restrictions, device control and removable media restrictions, and endpoint firewall and security settings, followed by server and application hardening covering server role-based hardening, web server hardening, database server hardening, application configuration security, and removing unused components and features. Learn about network device hardening, including router and switch hardening, firewall secure configuration, secure management interfaces, management protocols such as SNMP, SSH, and Telnet, and network device logging and monitoring. Explore cloud and virtualization hardening, covering cloud configuration security basics, virtual machine hardening, storage and access configuration, security group and firewall rule hardening, and identity and permission hardening in cloud environments. Finally, review security benchmarks and standards, including an introduction to security benchmarks, CIS Benchmarks, vendor hardening guides, and internal security baselines, and how these resources are used to measure and maintain secure configurations. By the end of this course, you will have more working knowledge of hardening principles, techniques, and standards across diverse IT environments, so you can implement, assess, and maintain secure configurations that protect organizational systems and data. Note: This course was created by Rahul Kaundal and Itelcotech. We are pleased to host this content in our library.
Skills covered
Hardening, Cybersecurity
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