The Microsoft Security Compliance Manager package provides centralized security baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.
Take advantage of the experience of Microsoft security professionals, and reduce the time and money required to harden your environment. This end-to-end Solution Accelerator will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for Windows client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications.
Access the complete database of Microsoft recommended security settings, customize your baselines, and then choose from multiple formats—including XLS, Group Policy objects (GPOs), Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)—to export the baselines to your environment to automate the security baseline deployment and compliance verification process. Use the Security Compliance Manager to achieve a secure, reliable, and centralized IT environment that will help you better balance your organization’s needs for security and functionality.
Here are some key features of "Microsoft Security Compliance Manager":
Integration with the System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC:
· Product configurations are integrated into the Process Pack for IT GRC to provide oversight and reporting of your compliance activities.
Gold master support:
· Import and take advantage of your existing Group Policy or create a snapshot of a reference machine to kick-start your project.
Configure stand-alone machines:
· Deploy your configurations to non-domain joined computers using the new GPO Pack feature.
Updated security guidance:
· Take advantage of the deep security expertise and best practices in the updated security guides and the attack surface reference workbooks to help reduce the security risks that you consider to be the most important.
Centralized Management of Your Baseline Portfolio:
· The centralized management console of the Security Compliance Manager provides you with a unified, end-to-end user experience to plan, customize, and export security baselines. The tool gives you full access to a complete portfolio of recommended baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. The Security Compliance Manager also enables you to quickly update the latest Microsoft baseline releases and take advantage of baseline version control.
Security Baseline Customization:
· Customizing, comparing, merging, and reviewing your baselines policy configurations just got easier. Use the customization capabilities of the Security Compliance Manager to duplicate any of the recommended baselines from Microsoft and quickly modify security settings to meet the standards of your organization’s environment.
Multiple Export Capabilities:
· Export baselines in formats like XLS, Group Policy objects (GPOs), Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, or Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to enable automation of deployment and monitoring baseline compliance.
Requirements:
· Microsoft Excel 2007 to export data in Excel workbooks.
· SQL Server 2008 Express edition.
· Microsoft .NET 3.5.
· Windows Installer 4.5.
· An active Internet connection for downloading Microsoft baselines.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New product baselines designed to take full advantage of the security features and options in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and Exchange Server 2007 SP3. The product baselines are designed to harden the following server roles for Exchange Server: Client Access, Mailbox, Hub Transport, Edge Transport, and Unified Messaging. New Windows PowerShell-based script kits are included to assist you in applying the Exchange Server baseline settings to the servers in your environment. For more information, see the Exchange Server 2010 SP2 PowerShell Script Kit User Guide and the Exchange Server 2007 SP3 PowerShell Script Kit User Guide in the Attachments \ Guides node of these Microsoft product baselines in SCM.
· IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (IT GRC) baseline information for many Microsoft product baselines is now available in SCM. These Microsoft baselines include new compliance-based setting groups that allow quicker and easier compliance reporting and audit preparation...
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