Definition of misconfigure in English:
misconfigure
verbˌmɪskənˈfɪɡəˌmiskənˈfiɡyər
[with object]often as adjective misconfiguredComputing Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
misconfigured Windows systems
Example sentencesExamples
- Inexperienced network administrators can easily misconfigure operating systems and firewall applications, or install them using default configurations.
- If the network is misconfigured, the problem can be corrected before the customer is affected.
- But they're sometimes misconfigured to accept and forward connections from the outside as well, allowing anyone on the Internet to route through the proxy with a simple browser configuration change.
- When something goes wrong and elements are misconfigured, service providers have very few reliable methods of isolating and identifying the location and source of the network breakdown.
- You can always make a separate FTP directory if you want, but this way lets people use HTTP to get files from your server if they're behind a misconfigured firewall that doesn't let FTP connections through.
Derivatives
noun
Computing Server misconfiguration can also provide intruders with a means of attack.
Example sentencesExamples
- Whether this was caused by a misconfiguration on our part, a software incompatibility or something else, we don't know.
- The rest, he says, are misconfigurations: systems with default passwords still in place, ports open unnecessarily and security features not even turned on.
- Once a hacker identifies a target network, his or her next step is often to find a system with default configurations or common misconfigurations.
- While more than 80 per cent of the online consumers surveyed believe they are secure, about the same number have not installed necessary security software or have a misconfiguration that affects security, the study said.