Symantec Enterprise Security Manager™ Baseline Policies for NERC Standard 1200

29 October 2003
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager™ Baseline Policies for NERC Standard 1200

Description

Symantec's Enterprise Security Manager™ (ESM) baseline policies for NERC Standard 1200 are configured by members of the Symantec Security Response team to assess compliance with this regulatory standard's minimum requirements. By supporting the security requirements defined by these regulatory standards these policies protect specific operating system platforms from vulnerabilities and exposures due to missing or improperly configured security controls that could allow the compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability of data that is stored and transmitted on your computer network.

These policies support the following operating systems:

Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Domain Controller
AIX 4.2.1 - 5.x
Solaris 2.6 - 2.9
Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.x

Introducing Regulatory Baseline Policies

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager™ regulatory policies are based on regulations and standards and are intended to ease the burden of effective security policy development. These preconfigured policies provide prepackaged Symantec security research that assess compliance with each supported regulation or standard's minimum requirements.

Regulatory policies are preconfigured to target specific OS platforms. These policies use preconfigured values, name lists, templates, and word files that directly apply to the targeted platforms. Regulatory policies use the modules and templates from Symantec ESM Security Update releases to check OS patches, password settings, and other vulnerabilities and exposures on the targeted operating system. These policies may also introduce new templates and word lists to check conditions required by the supported standard or regulation.

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