Staying Prepared: Developing Effective Security Policies and Implementing Them through a Security Program The Security Management Service Management Function (SMF) guides organization leaders and senior managers through issues that they should consider...

Microsoft Solution for Securing Windows 2000 Server http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=14837 Windows Server 2003 Security Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/windowsserver2003/w2003hg/sgch00.mspx Securing Wireless LANs with...

Launch the Download Now We have just released the Security Compliance Management Toolkit series to help you secure and monitor Windows ® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft ® Office. This series marks the next generation of Microsoft security guides...

Well... I might be exaggerating just a bit about the “peace on Earth”, but it’s a worthy goal isn’t it!? :) I’m writing this post for a couple reasons: 1. Announce an updated version of Microsoft Security Compliance...

Secure your environment with SCM 3.0! The Security Compliance Manager (SCM) is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage the computers in your environment and your private cloud using...

The DCM feature supports a powerful way for data discovery by using scripting. By invoking AccessChk.exe from DCM scripts, the output of user rights assignment data from AccessChk.exe can be collected by the DCM scripting data discovery provider. The...

Join now, download the security baselines, and provide your feedback. We are pleased to announce this Security Baselines Beta release. The best-practice guidance and security settings provided by the new Security Baselines Beta will help you plan and...

The v1.3 update to the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Series now includes the new Provisioning and Workflow paper in this widely distributed series. Large organizations today often have complex and poorly designed processes for provisioning...

The Windows XP Security Guide . is the first of three closely related security guides that are being updated. The other two guides are the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide and Threats and Countermeasures: Security Settings in Windows Server 2003 and...

Solution Accelerators Security site has a new face, you should check it out. The Solution Accelerators Techcenter for Security was published recently to help better navigate the security Solutions Accelerators. The library contains a vast array of Accelerators...

The Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 8 Beta (DCT) review period will soon close, but there is still time to participate. Thanks to all of you who have already downloaded the beta release and provided us with your feedback. Your input helps...

When you look at Microsoft Windows services, it can be confusing to sort through them and understand which ones you need. In this blog entry I'm going to take a more detailed look at Windows services and see if we can identify any services that might...

I can feel this becoming a FAQ, so I wanted to blog on this early in the Beta . :) I forgot to mention in my Beta announcement anything about the new 'severity' you see on settings, whoops. The text below is a copy and paste from the IE9 Security Guide...

Thought y'all might want to know that instead of having to search TechNet looking for the security solutions that my team, MSSC has published, we created one page with an all-up view. It's at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/sectip...

This technical webcast helps you know your enemy. We focus on the latest methods used by rootkit developers to hide their tools on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The session demonstrates how rootkits work, why they penetrate defenses...

This session focuses on the most recent prescriptive guidance in the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Solution Series (I&AM Solution Series) for Password Management, Self-service Provisioning GUI, and the Administrative Group Management tool...

The Solution Accelerators - Security and Compliance team has released a beta version of its first set of guides in the Compliance Management Series. This effort expands on the work done in the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide published in 2006. ...

The new Hyper-V Security Guide has been released. It provides methods and best practices to strengthen the security of computers running the Hyper-V role on Windows Server® 2008. The guide covers the following three topics: Hardening Hyper-V ...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide , which is now available to download. Best Practices and Automation Tools to Help You Configure and Deploy Security Settings in Windows Server 2008 Windows Server® 2008 is built...

This paper came out recently and examines the state of Web browser security and the correlation between a browser’s vulnerability and its advanced functionality. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E550F940-37A0-4541-B5E2-704AB386C3ED&displaylang...

The benefits of virtualization are more evident than ever. Microsoft Hyper-V™ technology allows consolidation of workloads that are currently spread across multiple underutilized servers onto a smaller number of servers. This capability provides you with...

Happy New Year from the Security and Compliance team here at Microsoft Solution Accelerators! I haven’t blogged in YEARS! That is changing as of right now. It’s not really a New Year’s resolution so much as a thing I love to do – get involved directly...

More social networking solutions are available today than ever. As a user of two of the technologies, Linkedin and Facebook, I think both provide great capabilities and both are limited. For example, Linkedin provides capabilities for maintaining a professional...

This is a month or so old, but good reading. PWC research on global state of information security. Net: High-level: Strategic priorities for the next year: 10 most common answers. Disaster recovery/business continuity Employee awareness programs...

The IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide is now available. Organizations today face an increasing number of threats to their computing environments. You need a proactive approach to assist you in your efforts to protect your organization's assets...