IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Organisation Remarks
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S 2.24 Introduction of a PC Checklist Booklet
Initiation responsibility: Head of IT Section, IT Security management
Implementation responsibility: IT-user
For documentation of the IT security measures taken with regard to a PC, it is
expedient to introduce a PC Checklist Booklet in which the user can record
the following:
- name of the PC user;
- site where the PC is installed;
- description of the configuration;
- access-granting means;
- hardware and software used;
- scheduled data backup intervals;
- maintenance work and repairs carried out;
- effected checks regarding computer viruses;
- time of password changes;
- available accessories;
- effected audits;
- point of contact in problematic cases;
- times of data backup.
The Additional Aids section of this IT Baseline Protection Manual contains a
specimen of such a PC Checklist Booklet.
Where keeping of such a PC Checklist Booklet is mandatory, control activities
will definitely be facilitated as all PC-relevant changes and IT security
measures carried out will be documented in this booklet. Moreover, keeping
of such a checklist provides the PC user with the required self-control for
carrying out regular data backup, password changes and virus checks.
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000