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Develop Hardening Checklist for Windows 10 One of the most useful tools you will use in your role as an Information Security professional is a hardening checklist. Essentially, it is a document that serves as a guide to configuring a desktop / system security. Please develop this guide for a windows 10 desktop environment. The hardening checklist will take the form of a table or chart that lists how the Windows 10 desktop should be hardened. This will be culmination of everything you have learned, in terms of Operating Systems, Security Controls, and various strategies that can be employed. Essentially this documents will summarize everything you know about securing a system in an easy to follow checklist. You should try to provide a short and quick one sentence description on each setting or task that you are recommending in the checklist. I need the answer in tabular form
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Hardening checklist for Windows 10
| Options | Explanation |
| Installation settings | disconnect the network while installing Windows and carefully choose the options coming on the screen |
| Update and Upgrade OS | Especially install all latest updates related to security (Control Panel -> Windows Updates) |
| Action Center | Gives information about data backup details, Antivirus, Windows updates etc. |
| Least Privilige | configuring the system accrding to the things you do and mothing extrs than that. |
| Protection from Malware | Windows Firewall, Device Guard, Microsoft Edge, Windows Defender etc. helps reduce the risk from malware. |
| User account control | Making different accounts for different users with high control mechanism |
| Identity and access control | setting Identification, Authorization, and Authentication to control attacks. |
| Proper application update | Keeping all the applications up-to-date in your system. |
| Software Restriction policy | Preventing any program residing at location other than /Program Files or /Windows |
