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    Remove unnecessary services¶

    Never have anything that you don’t absolutely need installed on a server. Especially not any unnecessary network services.

    Do not give adversaries extra ways to get into the systems.

    • Auditing system services with systemctl
    • Auditing network services with netstat
    • Auditing network services with nmap

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