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When running the Scoring Tool, I appear to be getting points deducted on certain settings, even though I know my security on that item is greater then the benchmark defines. What is going on?

April 26, 2017appear certain deducted Points running scoring security settings Tool

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When running the Scoring Tool, I appear to be getting points deducted on certain settings, even though I know my security on that item is greater then the benchmark defines. What is going on?

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The current version of the tool only checks for exact compliance with the benchmark, meaning that even a more secure setting will be considered a negative since it doesn’t match the benchmark. This is a known weakness in the tool and efforts are underway to correct this problem.