Hardening security configurations

There are several methods that you can use to protect the WebSphere® Application Server infrastructure and applications from different forms of attack. Several different techniques can help with multiple forms of attack. Sometimes a single attack can leverage multiple forms of intrusion to achieve the end goal.

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For example, in the simplest case, network sniffing can be used to obtain passwords and those passwords can then be used to mount an application-level attack. Some of the following methods are discussed in the WebSphere Application Server security web page.

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Note: In this release of WebSphere Application Server, more security hardening features of the server are enabled by default. However, if the features are not enabled after migration you can enable them yourself. See the Security hardening features enablement and migration article for more information.

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