Goals And Objectives
Goals and Objectives
ABC, Incorporated had identified the need to strengthen their current methodologies of ensuring that all applicable critical and security patches were being deployed and applied. The company believed that this objective would build a solid foundation to further mature its’ IT security practices. In order to facilitate that objective, the company developed five specific goals for this project:
1. Create a functional SCCM infrastructure to facilitate the automation of deploying security patches
2. Identify the current patching compliance of ABC’s deployed workstations and servers against applicable Microsoft critical and security updates
3. Remediate identified deficiencies to bring patching compliance up to an acceptable standard
4. Ensure continued compliance to set standards and facilitate reporting and monitoring
5. Develop guidelines for IT administrators to follow which will ensure future changes within ABC Inc.’s network footprint will conform to established software patching practices
Each successful completion of a goal led successive completion of the next goal in a phased manner. If any goal could not be successfully reached, the next tasks could not be started. During this project, all stated goal were realized, leading up the full successful completion of the project. The goals and their associated objectives are delineated as follows”
Create a functional SCCM infrastructure to facilitate the automation of deploying security patches The company recognized that the first step to successfully automating its processes was to ensure a good foundation. To successfully accomplish that goal, the following individual objectives were completed:
Created network information documentation and diagram
Created Active Directory infrastructure documentation and diagram
Identified individual sites and population of users and systems at each site
Determined number of servers required to deploy SCCM infrastructure
Identified TCP/IP information for
ABC, Incorporated had identified the need to strengthen their current methodologies of ensuring that all applicable critical and security patches were being deployed and applied. The company believed that this objective would build a solid foundation to further mature its’ IT security practices. In order to facilitate that objective, the company developed five specific goals for this project:
1. Create a functional SCCM infrastructure to facilitate the automation of deploying security patches
2. Identify the current patching compliance of ABC’s deployed workstations and servers against applicable Microsoft critical and security updates
3. Remediate identified deficiencies to bring patching compliance up to an acceptable standard
4. Ensure continued compliance to set standards and facilitate reporting and monitoring
5. Develop guidelines for IT administrators to follow which will ensure future changes within ABC Inc.’s network footprint will conform to established software patching practices
Each successful completion of a goal led successive completion of the next goal in a phased manner. If any goal could not be successfully reached, the next tasks could not be started. During this project, all stated goal were realized, leading up the full successful completion of the project. The goals and their associated objectives are delineated as follows”
Create a functional SCCM infrastructure to facilitate the automation of deploying security patches The company recognized that the first step to successfully automating its processes was to ensure a good foundation. To successfully accomplish that goal, the following individual objectives were completed:
Created network information documentation and diagram
Created Active Directory infrastructure documentation and diagram
Identified individual sites and population of users and systems at each site
Determined number of servers required to deploy SCCM infrastructure
Identified TCP/IP information for