Strong Defense

The sum total of all possible points of attack can be defined as the attack surface, and you need to take every opportunity to minimize it to the extent possible. Windows has built-in rules that minimize the attack surface; they simply need to be enabled.

Matthias WΠbbeling

The classic protection mechanisms for corporate IT infrastructure have always included regular software updates, up-to-date virus and spam protection, one or multiple firewalls (think network segmentation), and intrusion detection and prevention systems. However, even admins that can tick each of these boxes are not automatically safe and can see their companies fall victim to hackers. If you conceptualize an organization’s IT infrastructure, you can imagine a figurative surface that might include web services offered to the outside world over a network, although it by no means comprises all the elements of the interface. The “attack surface” on which Microsoft documentation [1] focuses is the sum total of potential attack points on the computer systems of an IT network that unauthorized users could exploit. Other terms for these points of attack…

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