Al ASAASs chief technology officer (CTO) established a plan to mitigate risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. As part of the mitigation plan, you and your team members will configure baseline security controls on all workstations (harden the systems), which run either Windows 7 or Windows 10. For this effort, you will ensure that the antivirus software is running properly and implement a control related to password-hacking attempts.

In addition, Al ASAASs CTO has asked your team to pay special consideration to continuously monitoring, testing, and improving countermeasures. The CTO points out that within the first 24 hours of configuring baseline security, you may sometimes receive alerts that malware has been quarantined within an antivirus program or notice a failed logon attempt captured by the Windows audit log. In response, you make a note to check the security of the workstation for which you will configure baseline security.

The CTO also requests a report on the work you performed, part of which will be incorporated into the company's IT security policy procedures. The report should also include the purposes of system hardening and auditing, and an additional area of concern or emerging trend related to information systems security that's relevant to Al ASAAS.

1-Explain the purposes of system hardening and auditing in terms of the companys goal of maintaining information systems security. Also describe an additional area of concern or an emerging trend related to information systems security that you think warrants the companys attention in the immediate future.