Security - a major ingredient for every Enterprise to avoid the adversaries attempt to invade your customers’ networks and access their servers—to bring them down, infect them with viruses, or steal information about customers or employees, every day!

The recent release of Windows Server 2008 from  Microsoft will help them address these threats. To assist customers in taking full advantage of the rich security features in Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has developed the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide.

How this guide can help?

What's new with the features?

The Windows Server 2008 Security Guide provides IT professionals with best practices, predefined security templates, and an automated deployment tool to help strengthen the security of servers running Windows Server 2008.\

The security recommendations in the Windows Server 2008 Security Guide are based on the combined experience of Microsoft security experts, customers, partners, and governments worldwide. 

The guide lets customers choose from two preconfigured security baselines: 

·         Enterprise Client: This security baseline is best for the majority of organizations in which functionality is evenly balanced with security.

·         Specialized Security – Limited Functionality:  This 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.

Both configurations have been thoroughly tested in Microsoft labs, and validated by customers and partners under real-world conditions.  Customers can easily tailor the configuration they choose, modifying security settings to accommodate the unique needs of their organization.

This Solution Accelerator also includes the powerful GPOAccelerator tool to help customers quickly establish, test, and automatically deploy a  tested configuration of Group Policy security settings across their organizations—in minutes, instead of hours or days.