“The solution to creating and implementing security baselines on computers in your network is to ‘just do it.’ Security baselines establish the foundation for the overall security of a computer. If a computer has no foundation, the chances of it being compromised are very high.

“One of the most common complaints about creating and implementing security baselines is that they are hard to establish for the different computers on the network and they are almost impossible to implement. Couple this complaint with keeping the computers up to date with the security baselines causes computers to go without any baseline or security foundation.” [ Read more... ]