Baseline
What is Baseline?
A minimum set of security controls or configurations established as a starting point. Baselines can be tailored based on an organisation's risk profile and operating environment.
Terms that appear alongside baseline
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as baseline. The number is how many controls name both.
- nist 37 shared controls
- cybersecurity 32 shared controls
- audit 29 shared controls
- configuration management 29 shared controls
- integrity 28 shared controls
- encryption 22 shared controls
- fedramp 21 shared controls
- access control 19 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on baseline
Requirements naming baseline across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Monitoring across the environment lets the institution detect anomalous activity.
ffiec-cybersecurity-assessment-tool-cat::D3.DC.An.B.1 · D3.DC.An.B.1 Anomalous Activity Detection (Baseline 1) →Baseline control principles for threat monitoring and analysis (required of every AI (minimum for a low inherent risk)). Processes monitor threat intelligence to discover emerging threats.
hkma-cyber-resilience-assessment-framework-c-raf::4.4.B · 4.4 Threat monitoring and analysis: baseline level →Pipeline operators should develop and implement baseline security measures at all of their facilities, and both baseline and enhanced security measures at each critical facility, using Table 2 for the measures and Appendix A for the recurring actions.
tsa-pipeline-security::6.2 · 6.2 Baseline and enhanced security measures →Develop, document, and maintain an approved baseline configuration of the information system as a basis for future builds and changes.
SP800-128-BASELINE · Baseline Configuration →The plan must require periodic reviews validating that the monitoring program's detection mechanisms are configured to the baseline configuration and that its processes and activities are executed as the plan requires.
api-1164::DE.DP-2 · DE.DP-2 Periodic review that detection mechanisms and processes match the baseline and the plan →When determining which SSRs belong to the baseline scenario, the proponent shall take into account the criteria it used for the project's SSRs, explain and apply any extra criteria required, and compare the project SSRs with the baseline SSRs.
iso-14064-greenhouse-gas-accounting-and-verification-parts-1-3::2:6.5 · 6.5 Identifying GHG SSRs relevant to the baseline scenario →Questions people ask about baseline
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