All security standards and Corporate Governance Compliance Policies such as PCI DSS, GCSx CoCo, SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), GLBA, NERC CIP, HIPAA, HITECH, ISO27000 and FISMA require IT systems to be secure in order that they protect confidential data.
This whitepaper explores one of the key dimensions to securing devices through the process of ‘hardening’, and examines the various means available to audit devices and maintain them in a hardened, secure state.