Microsoft Security Compliance Manager V2 beta now available on Microsoft Connect

2011-06-30 Leave a comment

A few weeks ago I told you about the great tool available from Microsoft called Security Configuration Manager. Recently Microsoft has made the beta version of the SCM V2 product available on their connect site. The tool is free, and provides some excellent features (see my previous post at https://dbgriffin.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/microsoft-security-compliance-manager-2/).  Read more of this post

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Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

2011-01-08 4 Comments

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team has a great product – the “Microsoft Security Compliance Manager”. One of the problems many of us face is evaluating which systems do, and which do not comply with our corporate expectations. For instance, which systems have invalid firewall configurations, which systems do not have a valid antivirus product installed, or which systems have administrator accounts with non-expiring passwords. Performing compliance audits of workstations or servers has been a bit challenging and Security Compliance Manager (SCM) can help.

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