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Changing Discovery Commands


Summary

This page discusses risk and mitigation with changing discovery commands and ensuring that the right data is collected and processed by Tideway Foundation.

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Impact

Risk

Mitigation

Availability of New Commands

  • Attributes collected need new or amended discovery command
    * New command has adverse affect on the OSI

* Workshop and review purpose of command and lost value in not having it versus gain in having it
* Review customer security policies to ensure new/changed command is acceptable and doesn't cause security concern/breech
* Review with Tideway Product Management to confirm there are no plans to capture the same attributes via an alternative command in the future

Scope of Change

  • New command is used to collect untested attributes
    * Change is deployed to inappropriate technology types

* Confirm and agree with Sponsors on what attributes will be collected using new/changed command
* Confirm and document the technology types to be affected by the new/changed command
* Review impact on Foundation reasoning of new attributes

Testing

  • New/changed command is not tested
    * New/changed command causes impact after testing

* Test all commands on the Tideway Dev/UAT environment against Lab technology
* Formally sign-off Dev/Lab testing with Sponsors before raising Production change request
* Deploy new/changed command to subsets of Production during out of hours scanning window

BAU

  • Inadequate skill and availability
    * Ownership of technical issues

* For new commands, complete planning to distribute into the environment
* Raise all necessary change requests prior to rolling out
* Update all Tideway project documentation to reflect details on the new/changed command
* Promote value of attributes being collected by the new/changed command through use of new reports, etc

 

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