SECURITY BASELINES

Why security baselines are important?

Why security baselines are important?

Introduction

The baseline or baseline study is the first measurement of all indicators considered in the design of a social development project and therefore allows to know the value of the indicators start when planned actions is that sets the “starting point” of the project or intervention. The baseline usually has a quantitative and can use both primary sources as secondary (e.g. census, previous studies), however it is preferred as the primary sources often concerning development projects to a specific scenario not covered by other researchers.

The Security Baseline, which includes one of the tool managers for security compliance, is a collection of configuration elements that provides prescribed values to solve a particular application or a particular scenario. It involves consistent standard levels combined with identification of typical behavior network of the IT environment. Security Baseline includes notes and technical data, to assist in the effective and efficient implementation of security infrastructure and provide you with an insight into the following topics:

Possible threats to Security

Information about specific recommendations

Implement countermeasures in managing security

The paper discusses the importance of security baseline for organizations, which includes instructions and processes to implement the baseline configuration EC and safety guide. The risk of attack is reduced by accomplishing the hardening of the key components of IT architecture through base lining process.

Discussion

The baseline is a tool that helps to overcome these difficulties and, moreover, to strengthen the culture of use and exploitation of information in public. To establish a link between the information available and process of making decisions, serves three important functions:

Collects and makes available to the users a set of key indicators for the planning and monitoring of management

An approach allows comparative efficiency analysis

Provide the organization rational and joint information systems

The security baseline enables:

Establish security baseline scenario in which to implement a project

Serve as a point of comparison for that future assessments can determine how far it has managed to achieve the objectives

Corroborate the data obtained in the diagnosis and pre feasibility studies that led to the formulation of the project

More accurately characterize the target population of the project or intervention, and thus could even reformulate the objectives in order to gain greater relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability potential

Make a well conceived plan for project implementation

The security baseline solve common problems of improvisation in planning and providing certain elements for a systematic evaluation of public policies, it defines indicators previously stable over time-or-structural indicators, selected under its importance over state functions of guidance and regulation policies and sets a benchmark year to observe the evolution and behavior of government actions. It has the additional advantage of providing, in the case of specific programs of a particular government, selection schemes, weighting and incorporating new indicators-term indicators. The selection of indicators goes through a process of consultation and consensus according to the information needs of managers and professional staff in institutions related to the actual planning and objective of public policy and, of course, with ...