Stop drowning in criticals — prioritize patching using exploitation evidence (KEV, EPSS), asset exposure, and business context instead of raw CVSS.
Hardening items
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Design realistic phishing simulations that measure and reduce risk — with metrics that matter, training that sticks, and without blaming users.
Deploy the three DNS-based email authentication standards in the right order and move DMARC from monitoring to full reject policy safely.
Apply the CIS Level 1 baseline to Ubuntu Server — filesystem, kernel, auditing, and service hardening — with automated scanning to measure progress.
Disable password and root login, enforce key-based authentication, and add brute-force protection to lock down the most attacked service on any Linux server.
Combine subnet-level NSGs with a centralized Azure Firewall in a hub-spoke topology for defense-in-depth network filtering.