COMPLIANCE CHECKING OF ASSETS

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Current Process

Overview

  • Policy created dictates Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
  • STIGs are written and maintained by DISA Field Support Office (FSO)
  • System Administrator must manually download STIGs or rely on interim fixes like Gold Disk to evaluate compliance of given asset
  • System Administrators need to manually check settings (there are 261 checks in the latest version of Windows 7 STIG) FOR EACH Asset

SCM Process

Overview

  • Agents exist on managed assets on network
  • Compliance checking can be managed from one central place FOR ALL NETWORK assets
  • Agents downloads compliance check information in standardized (SCAP) format
  • Agents report back compliance results continuously
  • Network Situational Awareness