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🎓 Purpose

Baseline configurations are documented sets of configurable specifications for various types of systems, from operating systems to peripherals to cloud instances. Building and maintaining your systems according to known baseline configurations helps to ensure that your systems have been setup in a secure and acceptable fashionUpdates and patches can provide your software with new functionality, but the most important purpose they serve is to fix security vulnerability that could place your system and work at risk.

👥 Audience

🔖 Contents

Initial considerations

Evaluate possible institutional options.

• Consult with your local IT group about whether an institutionally managed system would meet your needs. These systems are managed by technical experts at the University, divisional, or departmental level, allowing you to focus more on the task at hand, rather than maintaining the security of unmanaged systems.

  • https://uoft-infosec-cf.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ISH/pages/4948958/Additional+help#%F0%9F%96%A5%EF%B8%8F-Information-Technology-(IT)

Maintain an asset inventory.

• Maintain and consult your device inventory to confirm which systems you'd want to “harden”.

  • Asset management; data and devices

Follow general security best practices.

The majority of security events and incidents occur when general best practices are insufficiently followed or ignored. By applying a holistic approach to securing your systems, often referred to as “defence-in-depth”, you help reduce the risk of data loss or breach.