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On Apr 26, 2010 6:35 AM, "Ben Greenfield" <[email protected]> wrote: In my experience very very few organizations are capable of auditing changes on workstation assets in a way that provides real assurance. I think where most organizations completely drop the ball is on having the audit capability per workstation (or per server or per device in many organizations I've worked with). I think the common practice is to stop with the easy task of documenting that a particular asset class ought to and is approved to receive an update, without ever doing the actual verification to achieve the assurance that all workstations received the patch. In some Military environments I've worked in their is a requirement that in order to maintain network accreditation, daily credentialed patch scans must be run. There is usually a separate and distinct role of Information Assurance Manager whose task is to verify that the appropriate patch levels are being achieved. Just so everyones clear, if the network loses accreditation, that means that your upstream provider disconnects you. I think part of what creates the culture where organizations stop before reaching assurance is that they see a cost benefit in not separating the duties of patch application and patch verification. I think there are other, less admirable causes in some case as well, such as ignorance or negligence. I'm just using patching as an example here, this applies to penetration tests, firewall audits, and other areas. The problem with not having the separation of duties is that it creates a conflict of interest where a very often stressed-out Administrator is the ground-zero for an organizations actual security posture. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > When you say configuratio... -- -- Benjamin C. Greenfield, CISSP bcg [at] struxural.com Domains and Hosting for Less from Stru... http://www.struxural.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected]...
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