Computerized system for complying with certain critical infrastructure protection requirements

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause a computing device to:

• collect system information by communicating with a plurality of devices over an electronic communications network to execute a plurality of command line operations on the plurality of devices to gather one or more of local audit policy settings, local user groups, hardware manufacturer, model, hard drive space, operating system, service pack level, patches to a device, network adapter information, TCP ports and services, UDP ports and services, antivirus definition version information, installed applications and/or local password policy, wherein the command line operations are selected to target extraction of profile elements based on one or more critical infrastructure protection (“CIP”) standards in one or more of the following:
• CIP-003 R6, CIP-007 R1, CIP-007 R2, CIP-007 R3, CIP-007 R4, and/or CIP-007 R5;
• compare the collected system information for the plurality of devices with baseline system configurations to determine whether any changes have been made that could indicate a potential threat;
• remediate one or more items based on a determination that one or more changes have been made that could indicate a potential threat;
• and
• set the collected system information as the baseline system configurations for the plurality of devices based on a determination that no changes have been made that could indicate a potential threat;
• and
• wherein the devices for which system information is collected includes:
• servers, workstations, network devices, installed applications, network ports, and/or services.

A method of detecting a potential threat to one or more critical cyber assets, the method comprising:

• collecting, by a computing device, system information by communicating with a plurality of devices over an electronic communications network to execute a plurality of command line operations on the plurality of devices to gather one or more of local audit policy settings, local user groups, hardware manufacturer, model, hard drive space, operating system, service pack level, patches to a device, network adapter information, TCP ports and services, UDP ports and services, antivirus definition version information, installed applications and/or local password policy, wherein the command line operations are selected to target extraction of profile elements based on one or more critical infrastructure protection (“CIP”) standards in one or more of the following:
• CIP-003 R6, CIP-007 R1, CIP-007 R2, CIP-007 R3, CIP-007 R4, and/or CIP-007 R5;
• comparing, by the computing device, the collected system information for the plurality of devices with baseline system configurations to determine whether any changes have been made that could indicate a potential threat;
• remediating, by the computing device, one or more items based on a determination that one or more changes have been made that could indicate a potential threat;
• and
• setting, by the computing device, the collected system information as the baseline system configurations for the plurality of devices based on a determination that no changes have been made that could indicate a potential threat;
• and
• wherein the devices for which system information is collected includes:
• servers, workstations, network devices, installed applications, network ports, and/or services.