the.com/server security
the art of keeping strangers out of the machine that keeps your business in.
means the practices and tools that protect a server's data, access, and uptime from attackers, accidents, and its own default settings.
from born the moment computers started talking to networks in the 1970s, it grew teeth in the 1988 morris worm era, when the first self-spreading internet worm proved that one unpatched machine could take down thousands.
default passwordsstill the top cause of server breaches today
patch gapmost exploited bugs already had fixes available
human errorcauses more breaches than zero-day exploits
for instance
equifax 2017 — unpatched apache struts flaw exposed 147 million records
heartbleed 2014 — openssl bug leaked memory from half a million servers
aws s3 leaks — misconfigured buckets exposed billions of records across companies
solarwinds 2020 — compromised update server infected 18000 organizations silently