SFS 0: Operating System and Workstation Environment

All 16 sets · What is an SFS?

Assess how operating systems and workstations are provisioned, maintained, and protected, including remote use, shared storage, device encryption, and operational logging.

Scope and boundaries

This set covers the working environment used by staff and administrators, including local, diskless, and remote workstations. It considers asset identification, approved system images, patching, local data, shared file systems, and the handling of device decryption keys. Its questions should identify the devices and review period in scope and connect each condition to configuration or operational evidence. Privileged access is addressed in SFS 1, recovery testing in SFS 2, and central monitoring in SFS 6.

The sixteen questions

This set has sixteen SF positions, 0–F. Each position is one question, not another set. All questions below are unreviewed placeholders; no assessment result has been recorded.

From questions to a profile

Only reviewed, accepted 0/1 assessments can populate the sixteen-bit set profile. SF 0 is the most significant bit and SF F is the least significant bit. The completed result uses four hexadecimal digits, including leading zeros. There is no completed profile for this draft set.

Read assessment and validation, then encoding. A set profile preserves individual answers; it is not a summed security score.