Hardening Systems to Ensure Continuous Compliance Using SanerNow

Every organization will have a set of regulations to which they must adhere. This regulation might differ on a timely basis or can constantly change. Keeping your organization aligned with up-to-date security standards is essential with System Hardening. A vulnerability management tool is also essential for checking for vulnerabilities.

In June 2021, LinkedIn underwent an attack due to compliance deviation, where almost 500 million customers’ personal information was stolen. However, the attacker was reportedly using data scraping techniques to expose the APIs of this networking website. Moreover, if a networking giant like LinkedIn can face attacks, it should be the organization’s priority to harden systems against their compliances! Anyways, these attacks can be stopped using a patch management tool.

• Assess Compliance Posture with Comprehensive Dashboard:

Get detailed information about the organization’s security posture in a unified dashboard. However, it showcases device compliance, rule compliance, misconfigurations, benchmarks supported, top deviant assets, and top remediation recommendations.

• Leverage Compliance Benchmark Templates:

SanerNow supports all major benchmarks such as:

• HIPAA
• PCI
• NIST 800-53
• NIST 800-171
• ISO
• SOC

You can create a new benchmark and customize the existing one according to your organization’s infrastructure. Moreover, SanerNow supports over 21,000+ compliance checks.

While creating a new benchmark, you can choose from a wide range of compliance rules and apply them to your selected devices or even a whole group.

• Fix misconfigurations instantly:

These days, there are other vulnerabilities apart from software vulnerabilities, such as misconfiguration, software deviation, missing patches, posture anomalies, IT assets deviation, and more.

You can create a patching task by giving it a task name and selecting your preferred time to apply patches. There are other options that you can choose from and customize your misconfiguration patching.

• Revert fixes:Several fixes might need to be undone because they don’t perform. This can be by selecting a particular patch and reverting them.

• Automate end-to-end compliance hardening:You can completely automate the compliance management process with SanerNow. Select an asset or group of assets that you would wish to automate and create an automation rule. You can schedule the compliance management process based on your preferred time and how often you would like to repeat it.There are options where you can add post and pre-remediation scripts in case you would need your customization during the ongoing process.

The consequence of not adhering to the organization’s compliance posture can be devasting. However, with SanerNow compliance management, you can continuously monitor your organization’s compliance posture and create customizable security policies.

However, SanerNow has a wide range of other features you could choose from to keep your organization safe from cyberattacks. Schedule a free demo and explore what’s in store!