Beyond compliance: DISA STIGs’ role in cybersecurity

From: GCN

By Don Byrne

If you look at any best practice guidance, regulation or standards around effective IT security out on the market today, you will see that it advises organizations to ensure their computing systems are configured as securely as possible and monitored for changes.

To many, the Security Technical Implementation Guides from the Defense Information Systems Agency represent a questionable exercise in compliance. Yet the STIGs play a real and important role in helping prevent cyber attacks for both the federal government and commercial organizations.

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