Process
Current Diagnosis
Evaluation of the current configuration status against security standards (CIS Benchmarks).
Hardening Plan
Design of a secure configuration adapted to your business functionality to avoid affecting operability.
Implementation
Application of controls: port closing, minimum permissions, encryption, and disabling unnecessary services.
Monitoring
Verification that the system remains operational and secure. Delivery of documentation for the new configuration.
Security is not a product, it's a configuration.
Most successful attacks exploit simple configuration flaws or unnecessary services enabled by default. Our hardening service transforms your systems into digital fortresses, eliminating attack vectors and ensuring that every component complies with the principle of "least privilege".
Key Benefits
Radically minimizes the available attack surface for hackers.
Compliance with robust standards like CIS Benchmarks and NIST.
Reduce your attack surface to the minimum.
Hardening for 1 server
Basic
Includes:
- Full hardening of 1 VPS or cloud server (any Linux distro)
- CIS Benchmarks Level 1 applied
- Secure SSH + firewall rules
- Unused services & ports disabled
- Detailed report of every change applied
- Delivery within 2–3 working days
Multi-server infrastructure
Pro
Includes:
- Hardening of up to 5 servers (any environment)
- CIS Benchmarks Level 2 + SELinux/AppArmor configuration
- Privileged Access Management (PAM) setup
- File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
- Audit log centralisation
- Executive report + technical remediation plan
- 1 follow-up validation session (30 days after delivery)
- Delivery within 5–7 working days
Critical infrastructure hardening
Custom
Includes:
- Full multi-server infrastructure hardening
- Container hardening
- Cloud security posture review
- Quarterly re-hardening review included
- Continuous automated vulnerability scanning
- Incident support SLA
- Hardening runbook + playbook documentation delivered
Server Hardening FAQs
Patching corrects known software errors. Hardening goes further: it changes the default configuration to make the system more resistant, even if the software has unknown vulnerabilities (0-days). Both are necessary.
If applied without control, yes. That's why at Primitive we first perform a diagnosis and apply changes in a testing environment (staging) before moving to production, ensuring that functionality is not affected.
You receive an optimized and secure environment, along with a technical report of the changes made ('before & after') and a maintenance guide to maintain the security level in the future.
Hardening should be reviewed whenever new infrastructure or significant architectural changes are introduced. Additionally, we recommend an annual periodic review to adapt to new threats.
