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Threat Analysis

This video explains what security misconfiguration refers to and what hackers will target to attack a system.

Security misconfigurations pose a significant risk to your system security.

Security misconfigurations refer to actions or settings that lower a system’s resilience and make it more vulnerable to hackers. Watch this video to learn more about misconfigurations that you need to be aware of when assessing your own system, and how hackers tend to assess a system to find these vulnerabilities.

Reflect and share: How is your organization’s system kept up to date? How often do you think your system should be checked to ensure unused accounts are removed and that all online links and pages are either removed or updated if they are outdated? Share your answers and reasoning here.

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