Background
The term is generally attributed to Marcus J. Ranum in an article discussing firewalls. In it he defines bastion hosts as
...a system identified by the firewall administrator as a critical strong point in the network's security. Generally, bastion hosts will have some degree of extra attention paid to their security, may undergo regular audits, and may have modified software.Read more about this topic: Bastion Host
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