Mitigation techniques, secure baselines and hardening

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Apply mitigation techniques: segmentation, access control (ACLs, permissions), application allow/block lists, isolation, patching, encryption, monitoring, least privilege, configuration enforcement and decommissioning
Establish, deploy and maintain secure baselines using benchmarks, Group Policy and configuration management

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Harden workstations, servers, switches, routers, cloud infrastructure, mobile devices, ICS/SCADA, embedded/RTOS and IoT: disable unused ports and protocols, change default passwords, remove unnecessary software, enable host firewall and HIPS

Deploy deception and disruption technology: honeypots, honeynets, honeyfiles, honeytokens and canary accounts (SY0-801)

Use sandboxing to isolate untrusted code and analyse suspicious files

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