Published: May 22, 2003 | Updated: February 18, 2009
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The Windows XP Security Compliance Management Toolkit provides you with an end-to-end solution to help you plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Windows XP® Professional Service Pack 3 (SP3) in your environment.
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This Solution Accelerator includes the Windows XP Security Guide and the GPOAccelerator tool to provide you with prescriptive information and automated tools to establish and deploy your security baseline. This toolkit also provides you with 6 DCM Configuration Packs to use with the desired configuration management (DCM) feature in Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1. Use this functionality to help you monitor the implementation of your security baseline for Windows XP SP3.
The Windows XP Security Compliance Management Toolkit is part of the Security Compliance Management Toolkit series.
The Windows XP Security Guide offers a choice of preconfigured security baselines for the following two different environments:
- Enterprise Client. This security baseline is best for most organizations in which functionality is evenly balanced with security.
- Specialized Security – Limited Functionality. This security baseline is best for organizations in which concern for security is so great that a significant loss of functionality is acceptable. For example, military and security agency organizations operate in this type of environment.
Included in the Download
The Windows XP Security Compliance Management Toolkit includes the following components:
- Security guide – The updated security guide for Windows XP. The guidance provides you with best practices and information about automated tools to help you plan and deploy your security baseline.
- Attack Surface Reference workbook – A resource that lists the changes introduced as server roles are installed on computers running Windows XP.
- Security Baseline Settings workbook – A resource that lists the prescribed settings for each of the preconfigured security baselines that 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 Group Policy objects (GPOs) you need to deploy your chosen security configuration.
- INF Files – INF files for Windows Server 2008.
- Baseline Compliance Management Overview – An overview that includes best practices about how to monitor security baselines for computers running Windows XP.
- DCM Configuration Pack User Guide – A step-by-step prescriptive user guide about on how to use the Configurations Packs in Configuration Manager 2007.
- DCM Configuration Packs – This toolkit includes 6 DCM Configuration Packs for you to use with the DCM feature in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1.
In More Detail
The Windows XP Security Guide includes the following content:
Overview
Executive Summary
Who Should Read This Guide
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1: Implementing the Security Baseline
Enterprise Client Environment
Specialized Security – Limited Functionality Environment
Chapter 2: Additional Hardening Procedures
Disable Automatic Execution of Windows Error Reporting
Disable SSDP/UPNP: Disable SSDP/UPNP
Securing the File System
Chapter 3: Software Restriction Policy for Windows XP Client Computers
Software Restriction Policy Architecture
Software Restriction Policy Options
Software Restriction Policy Design and Deployment
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