CHAPTER 4: STEP 4 – CONDUCT GAP ANALYSIS

This activity is the information gathering and analysis part of the PCI project and relies on interviewing staff and assimilating information from existing policies, processes and supporting procedures and includes a technical review of systems, including:

  • Network components, such as firewalls, switches, routers, wireless access points, network appliances and other security appliances.
  • Servers, including: web, database, authentication, domain name service (DNS), mail, proxy, network time protocol (NTP).
  • Applications such as all purchased and custom/bespoke applications, internal and external (Web) applications.

Business process analysis and reviews must be conducted with security management and support ...

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