OMB/FDCC Service Center
Approach - Enterprise implementation of security configurations and baseline images can be a substantial undertaking. Planning must account for training, testing, recovery, and minimizing impact on business operations. Techniques and procedures appropriate for your environment are dependent upon your enterprise hardware and software configuration, IT governance practices, and operating procedures. Your approach should include optimizing your infrastructure for configuration management; automating deployment as much as possible; pilot testing the deployment in a subset of your enterprise; and preparing users and support staff for upcoming changes. In our experience, success required the work of multiple teams working together from start to finish. An comprehensive communications plan is essential to ensure that stakeholders, team members, support staff and end users are appropriately informed and offered input to the implementation planning process.
Objective – Detailed plan that covers infrastructure optimization, automating deployment, testing, users support and implementation.