The Services and Service Accounts Security Planning Guide This guide addresses the common problem of Windows services that are set to run with highest possible privileges, which an attacker could compromise to gain full and unrestricted access to the...

Here's an answer for those folk that have to manage PCs that are used in public locations and/or PCs with multiple user accounts. Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP. http://www.microsoft.com/sharedaccess . Shared computers are found...

[ UPDATE: September 6th, 2011 ] The Beta review period for SCM2 ended August 31st, 2011 (and the download is no longer available). We've been working on stabilizing the build and meeting release requirements. Look for the RTW of SCM2 on September 15th...

In this article we invite Michael Tan, one of our senior program mangers, to introduce a new feature in the recently updated Sysinternals tool called AccessChk. His two part article looks at how the new AccessChk feature works and the benefits of using...

The Security Compliance Manager is now available for download! Windows 7 security just got easier. The tool includes support for this and other Microsoft operating systems and applications. Many thanks to those of you who participated in the beta review...

UPDATE : The SCM v2 CTP has been removed from MS Connect, please download the SCM v2 Beta . Thanks for the patience! -jeff [Jun 27th, 2011] Hello everyone! You’ve all been very patient with the SCM team and I wanted to thank you for that....

This is a guest blog post by Alan Burchill who is an IT Consultant for over 10 years and a Group Policy MVP. He is also the author of the Group Policy Center web site and you can also follow him on twitter at @alanburchill . Along with the recent release...

Thought y'all might want to see this webcast: https://www119.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=JH3PH2&pw=NK3C8X More info: This session discusses utilizing capability built into Windows XP and Windows Server, to implement a logical isolation...

Microsoft Identity and Access Management Series This series of papers provides numerous identity and access management concepts, techniques, and solutions. It has been updated to describe several password management approaches including password policies...

A couple of webcasts done in June 2005: "Wireless Security using PEAP and Passwords or Digital Certificates" https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/lmevents/view?id=msft062805st&pw=D654WT Recording On: Tuesday, Jun 28, 2005 8:05 AM...

Please download the latest Windows Installer .MSI file to ensure you have the latest version of the Windows Vista Security Guide . The Windows Installer .MSI file for Version 1.1 of the Windows Vista Security Guide which was available for download...

SCM makes configuration management for both computers and your private cloud a snap! Security Compliance Manager 2 is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage your computers, traditional...

The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the beta release of Microsoft Security Compliance Manager version 1.0, an end-to-end Solution Accelerator to help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for Windows® client and...

Get the most out of Windows Server 2012 with new features that help you to quickly identify, classify, and protect data in your private cloud! This toolkit is designed to help you to: Identify, classify, and protect data on file servers in your...

I'm super busy preparing the Beta release for Security Compliance Manager (SCM)! I've gotten a lot of mail recently about what exactly is this SCM thing? What does it do? Well, I've shot some cool video discussing the features and benefits. Keep it locked...

Identify, classify, and protect data across targeted file servers in your organization The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce that the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available for download. Download...

I wanted to take an opertunity to introduce the latest Solution Acclerator. If your intrested in Compliance you should take a look at this guidance. Download it NOW! Shift efforts of Governance Risk and Compliance to technology, using the IT Compliance...

We’ve all seen phishing expeditions; however I have to admit that the following example has to be one of the cleverest I’ve seen so far, or a total fluke. Traditionally you would expect a plea from a company explaining that your account or username...

The Microsoft Solutions for Security & Compliance (MSSC) team is responsible for creating cross-product prescriptive guidance solutions for the IT professional. The team is always interested on hearing from IT teams on what cross-product guidance...

To download these extensions, click here . The System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP are designed for organizations to use with the desired configuration management (DCM) feature in Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/architectureanddesign/ipsec/default.mspx Isolating Network Resources to Better Protect Against Rogue Machines, Infections and Information Theft · How does one restrict sensitive traffic to specific...

You’ve been asking for Exchange Server baselines. You’ve been waiting for the Windows 7 SP1 baseline update. They are all available now in SCM v2.5! SCM 2.5 includes a number of new and updated baselines, empowering you to manage configuration...

I've been running an informal poll since October 2005 targeted to IT pros and IT "generalists" asking them what their security "priorities" were. The reason I asked is because it helps my team focus on what security guidance content we build. Here's the...

This Webcast talked a lot about identity management and included a checklist at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/security360may05list.mspx The Webcast can be viewed at: http://security360.savvislive.com/20050517/registration.html Tony.

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