Does your organization have a formal pre-deployment security hardening process for all systems, hardware, software, and services before they enter production?
Explanation
Hardening before go-live is the point of this item, namely whether you run a formal pre-deployment security hardening process for systems, hardware, software, and services entering production.
Proper pre-deployment hardening includes activities such as removing unnecessary services, applying security patches, configuring secure authentication, implementing least privilege access controls, and ensuring secure network configurations.As evidence, you could provide documentation of your pre-deployment security checklist, hardening standards for different system types, screenshots of configuration management tools, or sample security validation reports that must be completed before production deployment approval.
Implementation Example
Properly configure and secure systems, hardware, software, and services prior to their deployment in production
ID: ID.AM-08.142
Context
- Function
- ID: IDENTIFY
- Category
- ID.AM: Asset Management
- Sub-Category
- Systems, hardware, software, services, and data are managed throughout their life cycles
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