Re: Security Checklist

[Venkatesh Selvaraju <venkatesh.selvaraju () gmail com>]

CIS benchmarks are the industry wide acceptable standards for IT
security controls and they have got it all from operating systems to
routers to web servers:
http://www.cisecurity.com/benchmarks.html

HTH

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:31 PM, James Attard <james.attard () gmail com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I need some help to build up a security checklist for my company
> running mainly windows operating systems, apache webservers, and
> checkpoint firewall. What I have in mind is that everyday I dedicate
> not more than 1 hour and I look at this checklist and see whether the
> health status from a security point of view of the whole IT
> infrastructure is OK. What should I be looking at? What logs do I need
> to generate if they don't exist, and what information patterns should
> I look at in the Apache logs/Windows logviewers? Do I need some
> software to help me aggregate and process all this information?
>
> Regards,
> J
>
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