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title: Deleted hardening settings for baseline version 7.0
description: Some hardening settings have been removed with the release of Security Center baseline version 7.0.
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product: Instance Security Hardening Settings
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# Deleted hardening settings for baseline version 7.0

Some hardening settings have been removed with the release of Security Center baseline version 7.0.

-   Disable Password-Less Authentication
-   Escape XML Response
-   Minimize One-Time Out of Band Verifier Lifetime Duration

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