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Meanings of security hardening in English

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hardening
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hardening

Process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one.

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        Examples for "hardening"
        1
        DERRY'S third night of violence reflected the hardening attitudes across the North.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Securing the system's services represents a large part of the hardening task.
        Essential system administration, 3rd edition
        3
        My impression is that attitudes are visibly hardening as these events progress.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The life that both led even in the summer was thoroughly hardening.
        The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
        5
        For now, the bombs appear to be hardening opinion against the militants.
        Reuters
        Translations for security hardening
        Portuguese
        hardening