Published: June 5, 2008   |   Updated: October 28, 2009

 

What’s New

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series has been updated to include new security baselines for Windows® 7, BitLocker™ Drive Encryption, and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8.

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About This Solution Accelerator

The Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series provides organizations with an end-to-end solution to help them plan, deploy, and monitor security baselines of Windows® operating systems and 2007 Microsoft® Office applications.

This Solution Accelerator is designed to help your organization meet its security and compliance requirements by providing the following resources:

• Prescriptive, tested, end-to-end security guidance from Microsoft for Windows 7, BitLocker, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows® XP Professional SP3, Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server® 2003 SP2, and 2007 Microsoft Office SP1.
• Automated tools like the GPOAccelerator to help you configure and deploy recommended security settings.
• Configuration packs for you to use with the desired configuration management (DCM) feature of Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 to monitor the Microsoft security guidance deployed in your environment. You can also remediate security baseline issues with this functionality.
• Reporting functionality you can use to notify auditors that the computers in your environment are in compliance with best practices and the security recommendations for these Windows operating systems and Office applications.

Available for Download

This toolkit series includes the following Solution Accelerators:

• Windows 7 Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows Vista Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows XP Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows Server 2008 Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Windows Server 2003 Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• Internet Explorer 8 Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• 2007 Microsoft Office Security Compliance Management Toolkit.
• GPOAccelerator.

In More Detail

Each of the Security Compliance Management Toolkits include the following components:

• Security Guide –Each toolkit includes an updated version of a previously released security guide for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Internet Explorer 8, or 2007 Microsoft Office. The guidance provides you with best practices and 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 that the security guides recommend.
• Security Baseline XML –XML files that allow your organization 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 7 and BitLocker, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003.
• Baseline Compliance Management Overview – The overview discusses best practices on how to monitor security baselines for Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer, and Office applications.
• 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.

Related Resources

The following resources provide additional information about security topics and in-depth discussion of the concepts and security prescriptions in this guide:

• Security Solution Accelerators
• TechNet Labcast On-Demand: SCM Toolkit: Configure the DCM feature
• TechNet Labcast On-Demand: SCM Toolkit: Reporting
• Hyper-V Security Guide
• IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide
• System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP

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