How System Hardening can help you better comply with the new IT security regulations
More and more national and international laws, standards, and regulations are stipulating how IT systems must be better protected. One essential component is System Hardening. That is why this measure is so extremely important.
Regulations without System Hardening? Unthinkable!
The world has become more uncertain. For example, attacks on the system landscapes of public authorities, organizations, small and large companies are increasing massively.
A so-called “cyberwar” is raging. In order to better secure companies’ data treasures and, above all, a country’s critical infrastructures, the European Union and individual countries, among others, are constantly enacting new IT regulations.
➡ From GDPR to NIS2: Anyone working in IT security has to constantly deal with new requirements.
➡ Added to this are industry regulations (including DORA and TISAX) and standards (ISO 27001), which are constantly changing and becoming more stringent.
➡ More and more companies are supplementing these regulations with internal compliance requirements.
One IT security measure that can now be found in all relevant regulations is System Hardening, also known as Secure Configuration. This is understandable, as this preventive measure significantly reduces the attack surface.
It is suitable for making individual applications and operating systems as well as large, complex system landscapes fundamentally more resilient.
How can strict IT regulations be complied with?
If you want to implement System Hardening, you face several challenges:
🛑 Effort
Hundreds of parameters must be adjusted for each system. This requires a lot of expertise and time, especially when it comes to hardening large and heterogeneous IT environments.
🛑 Benchmarks
More and more regulations require that your systems be hardened according to established standards. These include the CIS benchmarks, and the DISA STIGs. Implementing these requires intensive familiarization with the relevant material.
🛑 Group policies
Since it is extremely difficult to meet regulatory requirements via Group Policy Objects (GPO), these are now considered a “no-go.” Some regulations even explicitly prohibit the use of group policies for System Hardening. You must therefore find other ways to implement the hardening benchmarks.
🛑 Audits
The hardening measures must be documented. In addition, regular audits must be carried out to analyze, among other things, the status of System Hardening. If deficiencies are identified, they must be remedied promptly.
🛑 Adjustments
Your IT landscape, threat situations, and IT security regulations are constantly changing. You must therefore ensure that you can quickly adjust your security configurations. This can involve considerable effort.
What is the solution?
You need in-depth and sustainable System Hardening that complies with the latest technology and the increasing requirements of regulations, laws, standards, and guidelines. And this should be automated as much as possible to conserve your resources!
✅ Software solution
To achieve these goals, you can use a hardening tool such as Enforce Administrator.
✅ Systems management
Enforce Administrator allows you to centrally harden large system landscapes and monitor configurations.
✅ Continuous monitoring
Unwanted changes are immediately detected and reversed by Enforce Administrator. The result is a kind of “self-healing system.”
✅ Simple audits
You can generate a hardening report at the touch of a button to comply with documentation requirements.
✅ Digital sovereignty
Enforce Administrator is unique on the market. And our solution officially bears the label “Software made in Germany.”
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What our customers say
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IT System Engineer
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Alexander Wüllner / Hundt Consult
Managing Director