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I am doing a risk assessment and some techie keeps hitting me with terminology that I need some clarity on. Basically I am going through all my web apps and running a standard set of tests against them. I keep getting told that &quot;host based&quot; systems are also at risk, which yes fair enough any type of app is but I am not 100% sure what people mean when they say host based system. Am i right in thinking that host based means its a system that is hosted on a non public server (with a private IP) and that is only accessible to a limited population of users, i.e. ip range being our private ip addresses inside our LAN? Am I right in assuming this? No links please experts..
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I am doing a risk assessment and some techie keeps hitting me with terminology that I need some clarity on. Basically I am going through all my web apps and running a standard set of tests against them. I keep getting told that "host based" systems are also at risk, which yes fair enough any type of app is but I am not 100% sure what people mean when they say host based system. Am i right in thinking that host based means its a system that is hosted on a non public server (with a private IP) and that is only accessible to a limited population of users, i.e. ip range being our private ip addresses inside our LAN? Am I right in assuming this? No links please experts..

terminology / host - based

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.