# Hardening

Skill · Cybersecurity

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/hardening

Hardening, in cybersecurity, is the process of reducing a system's attack surface by disabling unnecessary services, applying security patches, enforcing strict configurations, and following best-practice benchmarks like those from CIS or NIST. System administrators and security engineers perform hardening on servers, operating systems, and network devices to minimize vulnerabilities.

Related skills: [Patch Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/patch-management), [System Administration](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/system-administration), [Vulnerability Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/vulnerability-management)

## Open roles requiring Hardening (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.