Minimum Baseline Security Standards (MBSS)

Build Consistent Security From a Strong Baseline

Minimum Baseline Security Standards (MBSS) Development establishes technology-specific security requirements for secure configuration, deployment, and ongoing management across the enterprise. The standards help create consistent security practices, support regulatory alignment, reduce configuration drift, and provide practical guidance for current and future technology environments.

Benefits

Create Consistency at Scale

Well-defined security baselines help organizations apply consistent requirements across technologies, strengthen governance, and support secure configuration and deployment as environments evolve.

01
Standardize Security
Establish consistent security requirements across technologies, platforms, and security controls throughout the organization.
02
Strengthen Governance
Support repeatable security practices, regulatory alignment, and more consistent governance across enterprise technology environments.
03
Reduce Configuration Drift
Provide clear technology-specific requirements that help maintain consistent and secure configurations over time.

Features

Practical Standards for Enterprise Technologies

Security baselines are developed around specific technologies, deployment models, and organizational requirements, covering infrastructure, platforms, security controls, and relevant operational considerations to support consistent and secure configuration across the enterprise.

Infrastructure & Technology Standards

Develop security baselines for network infrastructure, endpoints, servers, databases, cloud environments, virtualization, email, backup and recovery, and other in-scope enterprise technologies. Each baseline defines technology-specific security requirements to support consistent configuration, hardening, deployment, and ongoing management.

Infrastructure & Technology Standards

Platform Standards

Establish security baselines for enterprise platforms and operating environments such as Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Windows, Linux, VMware, Kubernetes, container platforms, and applicable cloud services. The standards provide practical, technology-specific requirements to support consistent security across different platforms and deployment models.

Control Standards

Define security requirements for security controls such as firewalls, WAF, IPS, EDR, SIEM, PAM, DLP, NAC, secure web proxies, and DNS security. These baselines standardize security configuration and control requirements, supporting consistent deployment and effective use of security capabilities.

Security Configuration Requirements

Define technology-specific requirements for secure configuration, hardening, logging, patching, backup, monitoring, high availability, and account management where applicable. These requirements provide a practical foundation for consistent technology configuration, ongoing governance, configuration assessments, and future deployments.

Methodology

Define, Standardize, Govern

Standards are developed using applicable Saudi cybersecurity requirements, recognized international standards and security benchmarks, vendor guidance, and industry best practices to establish practical and sustainable security requirements.

Step 1

Select References

Select applicable cybersecurity requirements, standards, security benchmarks, vendor guidance, and security principles for baseline development.

Step 2

Define Requirements

Develop technology-specific security requirements covering configuration, hardening, deployment, management, and relevant security controls.

Step 3

Structure Baselines

Organize requirements into practical standards that are technically achievable and operationally sustainable across the enterprise.

Step 4

Enable Governance

Establish repeatable baselines that support governance, regulatory alignment, security assessments, and continuous security improvement.

Why MBSS Development?

Turn Security Requirements Into Consistent Practice

Different technologies and platforms can introduce inconsistent security practices when common requirements are not clearly defined. MBSS Development creates technology-specific baselines that translate applicable cybersecurity requirements, recognized standards, security benchmarks, and vendor guidance into practical security requirements.