Network Intelligence System Hardening is a cybersecurity approach that involves securing and configuring a system to significantly reduce its vulnerability surface. This process includes the removal of unnecessary software, strengthening of default credentials, disabling of non-essential services, and adjustment of various system parameters from their default values to ensure secure operation for a focused set of functionalities. The goal of system hardening is to eliminate as many security risks as possible by stripping the computer of all non-essential software programs and utilities, which, while potentially offering useful features to the user, can also act as backdoors to the system.
