From the course: ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) (2024) Cert Prep

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Operating system security

Operating system security

- [Instructor] Whether you're running physical servers in a data center or virtualized servers in the cloud, system administrators are responsible for the configuration of operating systems to meet an organization's security control requirements. This is an extremely important responsibility, because attackers can often exploit security vulnerabilities to gain access to a vulnerable system and then even potentially leverage that access to compromise an entire network. Let's take a look at some important operating system security issues. There are many different security settings in any operating system that you can customize to meet the security needs of your organization. You'll want to establish a security baseline for your organization that includes the settings important in your environment. One of these is limiting the access that users have to administrative resources, because this level of access can result in…

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