Purpose

In addition to the use of Qualysguard for vulnerability management of production systems, the NCSA Incident Response and Security Team performs active threat hunting on the entire NCSAnet to detect misconfigurations, system that are not compliant with University policies, and general system weaknesses. The goals of this program are (1) to detect issues more broadly for all networked assets and (2) to investigate more deeply than simple checklists for NCSA's most critical infrastructure.

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