Inventory Management

Proactively Hardening Systems: Application and Version Hardening

| | 20 Critical Security Controls, Featured Articles, Inventory Management, IT Security and Data Protection, Security Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability scanners
The first article in this series examined configuration hardening, essentially looking at ports, processes and services as the “doors, gates and windows” into a network where security configuration management (SCM) becomes the ...
The State of Security

Configuration Hardening: Proactively Guarding Systems Against Intrusion

| | 20 Critical Security Controls, Application Security, attacks, Council on Cybersecurity, Data Loss Prevention, Featured Articles, Hardening Guidelines, Inventory Management, IT Security and Data Protection, Security Configuration Management, Security Strategies, system hardening, Vulnerability Management, vulnerability scanners
The concept of configuration hardening has nice imagery to it. When we use it to describe battle-hardened soldiers who have been tested in combat, a grim, determined image invariably leaps to mind ...
The State of Security

20 Critical Security Controls – Control 1: Inventory and Control of Hardware Assets

| | asset management, control framework, Inventory Management, IT Security and Data Protection, security control, Security Controls
Today, I will be going over Control 1 from version 7 of the top 20 CIS Controls – Inventory and Control of Hardware Assets. I will go through the eight requirements and ...
The State of Security