Security Compliance Toolkit
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Microsoft released new Security Compliance Toolkits today to help Microsoft customers: plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Windows 7 and BitLocker Drive Encryption, plus many other products. You are given a choice of preconfigured security baselines depending on if your within an enterprise or at home, once selected you apply the settings to your operating system and Microsoft applications. I hope Windows 8 will included this by default!
Security Help included in the Windows 7 version
- Security Guide –This guidance provides you with best practices and information about automated tools to help you plan and deploy your security baseline.
- Security Baseline Settings workbook – A resource that lists the prescribed settings for each of the preconfigured security baselines the guide recommends.
- Security Baseline XML – An XML file that allows customers to consume the data defined in the Security Baseline Settings workbook.
- GPOAccelerator tool – A tool that you can use to create all the GPOs you need to deploy your chosen security configuration.
- INF Files – INF files for Windows 7 and BitLocker.
- Baseline Compliance Management Overview – An overview that includes best practices about how to monitor security baselines for computers running Windows 7.
- DCM Configuration Pack User Guide – A step-by-step prescriptive user guide about how to use the configurations packs in Configuration Manager 2007 R2.
- DCM Configuration Packs – The toolkit includes DCM Configuration Packs for you to use with the DCM feature in Configuration Manager 2007 R2.
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