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Security baselines and standards

Security baselines and standards

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Security baselines and standards

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- Administrators need to make a lot of decisions about the secure configuration of systems and applications. Fortunately, we have some guidance available to us on best practices for these configurations. In Chapter Five, I covered security baselines and standards. Baseline configuration standards provide general advice. They're the default that we apply to any system or application that's going to run in our infrastructure, and they're a helpful source when we don't have more specific configuration standards. Those specific configuration standards go into great detail on individual operating systems, applications, devices, and other components of our network environment. Configuration standards provide us with specific guidance on how to set individual settings in the most secure manner possible. We can obtain these specific configuration standards from a number of different sources. The first place to go is the vendor. It's…

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