Server Hardening, probably one of the most important tasks to be handled on your servers, becomes more understandable when you realize all the risks involved. The default config of most operating systems are not designed with security as the primary focus. Instead, default setups focus more on usability, communications and functionality. To protect your servers you must establish solid and sophisticated server hardening policies for all servers in your organization. Developing a server hardening checklist would likely be a great first step in increasing your server and network security. Make sure that your checklist includes minimum security practices that you expect of your staff. Many servers online today are attacked thousands of times per hour, tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of times each and every day. The best defense against such attacks is to ensure that server hardening is a well established practice within your organization or to outsource this task to KV IT-Solutions.