The practical goal of application hardening is to make online transaction frauds and data thefts extremely complex and costly, and to lower as much as possible the return on investment (ROI) of the hacking activity.
The profit of e-criminals is driven mainly by their ability to quickly deploy successful and scalable attacks to thousands of computers, which becomes practically impossible against an architecturally hardened application, simple to use but hard to hack.
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