This came out of discussions with Dickson.

What are the considerations for securing system and what can help mitigate the threats? Here's a mind dump,

• Logical Access
• Password Management
• Firewalls
• Scanning
• Encryption
• Monitoring for Intrusion Detection
• System Integrity - Did somebody change something?
• Denial of Service Prevention
• Hardening
• Defensive Coding

Here's what I started writing about,