Essentials

A Minimum Security Baseline (MSB) is a minimum information security configuration standard, sometimes referred to as an organization’s internal “best practices.” They can be applied toward many areas within an organization; such as: router, switch, firewall, server or a site. These configuration standards detail many important items such as security patch minimums, disabling unnecessary services, or determining the number of required physical locks and surveillance cameras.

Benefits

Unfortunately, many believe that throwing additional security technology at an area is the best preventative security “medicine.” However, applying standard information security configurations to hardware and software as well as adding physical security measures is fundamental in building a comprehensive and sustainable information security program. Minimum Security Baselines can also be integrated into the Internal Vulnerability Scan process. Many times, vulnerability scanners report vulnerabilities that the organization has already determined to be an acceptable risk. Minimum Security Baselines can be used to quickly eliminate these vulnerabilities from the list findings of the scanner’s reports. This process may save the person in charge of the Internal Vulnerability Management process a significant amount of time.

Expertise

SecureState has experts in all facets of security, with many combined years of experience implementing and configuring hardware and software in a secure manner. We help many organizations not only build Minimum Security Baseline (MSB) templates, but have also automated the process of integrating MSBs into the organization as well.