Overview Baselines
To secure systems effectively and consistently, you must take a structured and logical approach. This starts with an examination of the system’s intended functions and capabilities to determine what processes and applications will be housed on the system. As a best practice, anything that is not required for operations should be removed or disabled on the system; then all the appropriate patches, hotfixes, and settings are applied to protect and secure it.
This process of establishing a system’s security state is called baselining, and the resulting product is a security baseline that allows the system to run safely and securely. Once the process has been completed for a particular hardware and software combination, any similar ...
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