The reason Anti-Virus is still current is because viruses still pose a major threat to our information systems and that isn’t changing any time soon. Just because we’re focused on ransomware and other immediate dangers doesn’t mean the threats are gone; like a good vaccine, we’re just able to handle their presence.

This is where we get down into the weeds into the heart of the systems on our networks. While some of the other components we spoke of earlier such as patching and managing permissions, here we focus on the core of what makes the system tick.

Hardening server applications really isn’t optional. You need to defend against malicious data access, theft, exposure, corruption and loss.