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Hardware and software configuration

Hardware and software configuration

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Hardware and software configuration

- [Instructor] Ensuring security consistency over time is possible through secure configuration and version control. It's important the CSSOPs understand how to apply these concepts to hardware and software. Without hardware security, all of your software security efforts won't amount to much. You come to think of it, your software development efforts won't amount to much. After all, how would your app even run without the hardware to run on? Configuring a secure physical server and a secure physical network requires that you use trusted hardware, and trusted hardware comes from trusted suppliers. This is really more of a secure supply chain discussion though, which we'll cover in domain eight. Once you've got your trusted hardware up and running, you protect the configuration of that hardware by controlling physical access to the hardware NIST and ISO both speak to data center physical security in their security…

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