Does your organization have a process to monitor software configurations for deviations from established security baselines?

Security baselines define the approved, secure configuration settings for software systems. Monitoring for deviations helps identify unauthorized changes, misconfigurations, or security drift that could introduce vulnerabilities. This includes monitoring changes to operating systems, applications, databases, network devices, and cloud services against their documented secure configurations. Evidence could include configuration management reports, automated scanning results from tools like Tripwire or Nessus that compare current configurations against baselines, change management logs showing detection and remediation of unauthorized deviations, or dashboard screenshots from security configuration assessment tools.