ACAS - Associate Of The Casualty Actuarial Society
ACAS - Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society
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ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment Solution) Questions And Answers
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ACAS - Associate Of The Casualty Actuarial Society
ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment Solution) - ANS is a network-based security compliance and assessment capability designed to provide awareness of the security posture and network health of DoD networks
SecurityCenter - ANS is the central console for the ACAS system tools an...
ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment
Solution) Questions And Answers
ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment Solution) - ANS is a network-based security
compliance and assessment capability designed to provide awareness of the security posture
and network health of DoD networks
SecurityCenter - ANS is the central console for the ACAS system tools and data
ACAS components - ANS SecurityCenter
Nessus- active scanner
PVS (passive vulnerability scanner) - sniffs the network
3D tool/optional - port 443
ACAS components perform these main functions: - ANS - Discover assets
- Detect vulnerabilities and data leaks
- Conduct configuration and compliance audits
- Publish findings to Continuous Monitoring and Risk Scoring (CMRS)
Plug-in - ANS displays a list of script files used by Nessus/PVS scanners to collect and
interpret vulnerability, compliance, and configuration data
Things that can be scanned for security data - ANS servers, workstations, peripherals,
Mobile device Management Servers, network servers
PVS (Passive Vulnerability Scanner) - ANS watches and determines vulnerabilities based
on network traffic, instead of actively scanning
Compliance - ANS a state of being in accordance with established guidelines,
specifications or legislation, or the process of becoming so
CMRS ( Continuous Monitoring and Risk Scoring) - ANS a tool to provide DoD component
- and enterprise-level situational awareness by quantitatively displaying an organization's
security posture
Task Order 13-670 - ANS Implementation of ACAS
What is the 1st screen you see when you log in to SecurityCenter? - ANS Dashboard
, SecurityCenter Building Blocks - ANS -Organization
-Role, Group, and User Definition
-Scan Zone (and Nessus Scanners)
-Repository
-Plugin
Organization - ANS groups of individuals responsible for a set of common assets
Scan Zones - ANS a defined static range of IP addresses that can be scanned by one or
more Nessus Scanners
Repositories - ANS are proprietary data files, residing on the Security Center, that store
scan results
Passive scanning plugins Range - ANS 1-10,000
Active (Nessus) plugin Range - ANS 10,001-900,000
Custom plugins created by users Range - ANS 900,001-999,999
Compliance plugin Range - ANS 1,000,000+
What is the maximum size of a SecurityCenter 5 Repository? - ANS 32GB
How can you get your SecurityCenter plugin updates? - ANS Automatically from DISA's
plugin server and manually from the DoD Patch Repository
A Scan Job incorporates - ANS Policy, schedule, Credentials, Import Repository, Targets,
and Scan Zone
Steps to run a Scan with SecurityCenter 5 - ANS 1. Create a Scan Policy
2. Create a Scan
3. Launch the Scan
4. View the Scan Results
Credentials - ANS administrative level usernames and passwords (or SSH keypairs) that
are used in authenticated scans
Blackout Windows - ANS - allow you to set a "do not scan" period of time
- Scans launched during an active Blackout Window will show a Partial Status in the Scan
Results
- will prevent scheduled scans from running
- times are expressed in 24-hour format
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