The phrase "a first step to securing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing initial actions or measures taken to achieve a goal or ensure safety.
Example: "Implementing a robust password policy is a first step to securing our network against unauthorized access."
Alternatives: "an initial measure for ensuring" or "a preliminary action to safeguard".
It's acknowledged, for instance, that this played a big part in the backroom machinations that led to the Iraq war – with Saddam Hussein's ousting seen by Washington hawks as a first step to securing not just energy supplies but billions of dollars for associated industries from privatisation and reconstruction.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said he would "encourage seaside communities to nominate the piers they care about with their local councils as a first step to securing their future".
The first step to securing your computer against PII theft is finding and identifying any instances of PII on your workstation.
It's the same solution we need to the press-regulation wars, to the war on terror, to the surveillance wars, to the pornography wars: to acknowledge that the internet is the nervous system of the information age, and that preserving its integrity and freedom from surveillance, censorship and control is the essential first step to securing every other desirable policy goal.
On that occasion Juan-Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen had just finished first and second in the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo but Dennis's finely tuned political antennae had already detected the possibility of losing both those drivers in the foreseeable future and by signing Alonso he had taken the first step to securing the future competitiveness of his team.
Given the highly distributed nature of microservices applications, observability — the ability to visualize the interactions between microservices — becomes important for troubleshooting issues and is also a necessary first step to secure them.
In an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Seehofer welcomed the Greek parliament's decision to pass VAT and pension reforms to secure the deal, as a first step to winning back confidence.
It's a commonsense first step to really securing our porous border.
In reference to international human rights law, it can therefore be argued that immigration status should not influence entitlements to healthcare, and that a first step towards securing undocumented migrants medical rights would be to separate the intertwined relationship between immigration control and healthcare [ 13].
Standardization: The first step to a secure a user environment is to standardize the desktop image used organization-wide and apply hardening standards from CIS. Cloud Computing: Consider leveraging cloud services for commodity business processes such as email, customer relationship management, and collaboration.
Housing improvement was given the first priority, concluding that better shelter was an essential basic need and the first step to feeling secure and confident.
