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New Version of SANS 20 Critical Security Controls is Available

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Version 2.3 of the Consensus Audit Guidelines, the top 20 critical security controls agreed on by a consortium of private and government security experts, has been released and is available on the Web site of the SANS Institute. The consortium includes the National Security Agency, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, and agencies from the departments of Defense, State and Energy, in addition to commercial forensics experts and white hat hackers. The controls are intended to help large enterprises prioritize and automate efforts to block known attacks and identify intrusions. They include 15 automated controls and five additional controls that cannot be automated to the same degree.

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Written by gideonras

December 14, 2009 at 7:47 pm

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