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How Quest Can Help You Protect Your Systems from Attack through Compliance with the Top 20 Critical Controls

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requires federal agencies to protect their information infrastructures against vulnerabilities and attacks and implement automated monitoring of their information security measures and controls.

To help agencies comply with FISMA, a team of cyber-security experts from Defense, Energy, Homeland Security’s US-CERT, GAO, Transportation, HHS, and other organizations have published the Consensus Audit Guidelines, which identifies 20 security controls that are important for blocking attacks. "Protecting Your IT Systems from Attack: How Quest Can Help You Comply with FISMA" explains how Quest Software can help you meet the requirements of 13 of these controls.