Practise the collocations for assessing, hardening, scanning, and enforcing cybersecurity standards.
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The CISO commissioned an external firm to ___ the organisation's security posture before the audit.
Assess posture (or 'assess the security posture') is the standard cybersecurity collocation for evaluating an organisation's overall security state. 'Evaluate out' and 'judge along' are informal. 'Check around' is too vague.
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The infrastructure team followed CIS benchmarks to ___ all production systems.
Harden systems is the standard security engineering collocation for reducing attack surface by applying security configurations. 'Secure along' and 'protect around' are informal. 'Lock away' implies physical restriction, not configuration.
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Automated pipelines were configured to ___ vulnerabilities in every container image on build.
Scan vulnerabilities (or 'scan for vulnerabilities') is the standard security operations collocation. Tools like Trivy and Snyk 'scan' images and code. 'Search around' and 'find out' are informal. 'Detect along' is less standard.
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The policy required all OS-level security updates to be applied within 48 hours to ___ regularly.
Patch regularly is the standard security collocation for applying security fixes on a consistent schedule. 'Update along' and 'fix around' are informal. 'Repair out' is not used in a security context.
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The security team established a baseline to ___ encryption and access control standards uniformly.
Enforce standards is the standard security and compliance collocation for ensuring rules are consistently applied. 'Apply out' and 'carry around' are informal. 'Push along' doesn't convey the authority implied by enforcement.