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Update for Solution Accelerators Navigation.
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 Read More...
Microsoft Compliance Management Series BETA released
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. Here Read More...
To Social Network, or NOT
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 Read More...
Integrate AccessChk.exe with DCM Scripts
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 Read More...
How to Use AccessChk.exe for Security Compliance Management
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 Read More...
Help us understand how to structure, package, and deliver security guides to make your job more effective!
Dear reviewers, Thank you for participating in this blog for the Security Guides. The customer feedback we received helped us build a high-quality Solution Accelerator that meets the needs of IT Professionals like you. You have worked with our team on Read More...
Regulatory Compliance Guide update!
Folks, we need your help! If you're interested in contributing to our efforts to provide the best Solution Accelerators for Compliance, read on. Generally, organizations that need to comply with regulations such as SOX and PCI DSS use a variety of disparate Read More...
Partner adopts Security Compliance Management toolkit
I wanted to thank Securevantange in making the Security Compliance Management toolkit a success in their world. Our customers and partners are all very pleased with the new baselines provided in the Security Compliance Management toolkit for DCM along Read More...
Security identification using Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.1
Are your PC's antivirus (AV) and antispyware or anti-malware (AM) programs actually running? If anything should keep you up at night, it's the question of whether your users' desktops and laptops are protected from malware. Previously we talked about Read More...
Configuration Drift
In my last blog I introduced a new Solution Accelerator called the Security Compliance Management toolkit. Today I'd like to help you learn more about this new Accelerator, but in a somewhat indirect way—by discussing a problem space known as configuration Read More...
Security Compliance Management Released!
If you have not heard yet, Solution Accelerators has released a great new toolkit!. Microsoft has created the Security Compliance Management toolkit. The toolkit provides best practices from Microsoft about how to plan, deploy, and monitor a security Read More...
Compliance Best Practices
In the Solution Accelerators – Security and Compliance (SA-SC) team our intention is to provide customers with the ability to easily adopt Microsoft technologies to create solutions. The idea might sound like a marketing ploy, but the truth is that we Read More...
Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection (Deployed Part 4 Final)
Our final Solution Accelerator story is about Napera, a company that provided an interesting twist to the Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for NAP: a simple-to-use NAP appliance. Napera focuses on organizations with a need for a simple defense-in-depth Read More...
Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection (Deployed Part 3)
NAP provides several key benefits to an organization's defense-in-depth model. One of these benefits is showcased in our next customer story about using the Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for NAP. Alex at Ball State University has been a key NAP Read More...
Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection (Deployed Part2)
The next installment of the Forefront Client Security/NAP integration story is about one of our partners. In today's blog we will look at a partner who has become and advocate for both NAP and Forefront Client Security (FCS). Fatih from Blue Ridge Networks Read More...
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