Security Basics: Security Checklist

[James Attard <james.attard () gmail com>]

Dear list,

I need some help to build up a security checklist for my company
running mainly windows operating systems, apache webservers, and
checkpoint firewall. What I have in mind is that everyday I dedicate
not more than 1 hour and I look at this checklist and see whether the
health status from a security point of view of the whole IT
infrastructure is OK. What should I be looking at? What logs do I need
to generate if they don't exist, and what information patterns should
I look at in the Apache logs/Windows logviewers? Do I need some
software to help me aggregate and process all this information?

Regards,
J

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