After imaging clerk workstations for the tax office, security wants consistent hardened settings that stay current. Which approach best applies secure baselines?
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Short Explanation
A secure baseline is the recipe you write, cook onto every clerk PC, and keep updated when the threat kitchen changes. Imaging with defaults and walking away—or letting everyone freestyle—leaves the tax office full of snowflake weak spots.
Full Explanation
Secure baselines define approved hardened configurations for computing resources. Organizations establish the baseline, deploy it (often via imaging and configuration management), and maintain it as patches and policy evolve. One-time default images, per-user improvisation, and undocumented paper-only standards fail that lifecycle. Applying establish-deploy-maintain to municipal clerk workstations is a core Domain 4.1 technique.