ITSD Computing and Communications Services News
June, 2003
  Objectively Evaluate the Security of Your System!

How secure is your system? You may *feel* that your system is secure, but it may in reality not be nearly as secure as you think. The Center for Information Security has developed free security benchmark utilities that can be run on systems to perform an objective security evaluation. The output is a number from 1 (not at all secure) to 10 (very secure) in addition to a list of any vulnerabilities that the utility discovers. The Computer Protection Program urges you to download and run the appropriate utility for your particular system from http://www.cisecurity.org/.