Server 2008 Security Guide Released
I get asked all the time, "Greg, I know that I need to secure my servers, but I just don't know what! Can you help?" That's the purview of expensive consultants, who'll sell you all kinds of services to help secure your network...
...or, you can just read Microsoft's excellent Security Guide series. Adding to those for Server 2003, XP, and IE, comes the Server 2008 Security Guide. These guides spell out exactly what you should do to secure your environment. But they also show you were making some changes can negatively affect it as well. They're always an excellent read, and in many cases they're the basis of corporate and governmental required settings.
Read on for more...
This guide comes with the following sections...
- Executive Overview. A summary for business and technical managers that briefly explains how you can use the guidance and the tool for this Solution Accelerator.
- Security Guide. Recommended guidelines and best practices in a series of chapters that offer detailed guidance on how to harden servers running Windows Server 2008 that handle different workloads, including those for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), DHCP, DNS, Web, File, Print, Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), Network Policy and Access Services, and Terminal Services.
- Security Settings Recommendation Appendix. A comprehensive technical reference that explains every prescribed security setting in the security guide.
- Security Settings Workbook. A resource that lists all prescribed settings for each of the preconfigured security baselines provided by the guide.
- Attack Surface Reference Workbook. A resource that lists the changes that installed server roles introduce in Windows Server 2008.
- GPOAccelerator. A tool that you can use to automatically create Group Policy objects (GPOs) recommended by the guide, which is available as a separate download.
Get your copy at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fb8b981f-227c-4af6-a44b-b115696a80ac&displaylang=en
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