The average life expectancy of an ISO standard is about five years, at a time. When the hourglass has run out of sand, a voting will take place to decide whether to maintain the ISO standard as-is, revise it or withdraw the standard altogether.
This blog post offers a few simple tricks and tips that will ensure that your security controls do not interfere with each other. The tricks are not really tricks, just plain old configurations which offers food for thought. As we know, Splunk is the most complex beast of a software out there.
When vulnerabilities are scanned from the perspective of an outside attacker and without actually logging in to the target system(s), only a limited and narrow picture of exposure to threats can be found. For a better picture, it is a good idea to log in with the right kind of credentials.
