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title: "What Should a Security Baseline Include?"
description: "A practical baseline for a small or mid-sized company covers multi-factor sign-in on email, identity and admin accounts; regular access reviews and prompt removal for leavers; backups with a tested restore; timely updates; and basic device security. Each control needs an owner and simple evidence, and any risk the company chooses to accept should be written down by leadership."
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# What should a basic security baseline include for a growing company?

A practical baseline for a small or mid-sized company covers multi-factor sign-in on email, identity and admin accounts; regular access reviews and prompt removal for leavers; backups with a tested restore; timely updates; and basic device security. Each control needs an owner and simple evidence, and any risk the company chooses to accept should be written down by leadership.

## What this means in practice

- Start with an inventory of systems, admin accounts, data locations and devices.
- Keep the baseline short enough that everyone actually follows it.
- Record evidence for each control, not just a checkbox.
- Review access, backups and devices on a set schedule.

## How Lid Vizion approaches it

We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.

## See it as a workflow

- [A security baseline for a growing company](https://lidvizion.ai/use-cases/security-baseline-for-a-growing-company/): Put the basic security controls in place that customers, insurers and investors expect, with an owner and evidence for each, before a questionnaire or incident forces the issue.

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