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| Hardening of the operating system is the act of configuring an OS securely, updating it, creating rules and policies to help govern the system in a secure manner, and removing unnecessary applications and services. |
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Service Pack
A group of updates, bug fixes, updated drivers, and security fixes that are installed from one downloadable package or from one disc. |
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| Originally, a hotfix was defined as a single problem fixing patch to an individual OS or application that was installed live while the system was up and running, and without a reboot necessary. However, this term has changed over time and varies from vendor to vendor. |
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An update to a system. Patches generally carry the connotation of a small fix in the mind of the user or system administrator, so larger patches often are referred
to as software updates, service packs, or something similar. |
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| The planning, testing, implementing, and auditing of patches. |
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| Used in Microsoft environments to govern user and computer accounts through a set of rules. |
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| Groups of policies that can be loaded in one procedure. |
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| The process of measuring changes in networking, hardware, software, and so on. |
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| The creation of a virtual entity, as opposed to a true or actual entity. |
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Virtual Machine
Created by virtual software; they are images of operating systems or individual applications. |
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| The portion of virtual machine software that allows multiple virtual operating systems (guests) to run at the same time on a single computer. |
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