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September 2009
| | | Security and Compliance Resources | | Recent successes? Let us feature you in a case study! If you have used Solution Accelerators to speed the adoption of Microsoft technologies, improve efficiency, or lower costs in your enterprise IT organization, we'd like to hear from you. Tell us your story. | | Stay in step with Solution Accelerators | | What's new with Solution Accelerators? | | | | 10 Tools to Help Harden IT Security and Strengthen Your Compliance Infrastructure
Worried about keeping your IT systems safe from attack? Overwhelmed by complex compliance objectives and auditor expectations? If so, this month's issue is for you!
Microsoft's Security and Compliance Solution Accelerators can help you successfully plan, deliver, and operate your organization's security and compliance infrastructure, helping to keep your systems safe from attack. Get started today with these 10 free tools!
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New Release: Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010
| | Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 enables you to efficiently and cost effectively deploy Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 across your organization. MDT unifies tools and best practices into a common deployment console and collection of guidance. New features, such as flexible driver management, optimized user interface workflow, and Windows PowerShell, can simplify deployment and make your job easier. |
| Harden IT Security
| | | | | 2. Hyper-V Security Guide. This guide provides IT pros with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key server virtualization security concerns. It also helps elevate the security of virtualized Windows Server environments to meet business-critical needs. Learn more.Download the Hyper-V Security Guide. | | | | Defend Against Attack
4. The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide. Gain an overview of the types of malware and their risks, and learn how to plan an effective antivirus strategy for your organization, and respond quickly to infections or incidents when they occur. Learn more.Download the Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide. | Strengthen Your Compliance Infrastructure
| | | 7. IT Compliance Management Guide. This guide can help shift your GRC efforts from people to technology, efficiently educating you on how an IT management framework can be used to implement controls to address GRC requirements. Learn more.Download the IT Compliance Management Guide. |  | | | Define Organizational Security Posture
9. IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide. This guide provides a proactive approach to protecting assets and sensitive information against increasing threats to computing environments through an easy-to-understand method that enables you to develop threat models for your IT environment and prioritized IT infrastructure security investments. Learn more.Download the IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide. 10. Security Risk Management Guide. This technology-agnostic solution helps organizations of all types plan, build, and maintain a successful security risk-management program. The guide references many industry-accepted standards for managing security risk and incorporates real-world experiences from Microsoft IT, customers, and partners. Learn more.Download the Security Risk Management Guide.
Beta Available: Infrastructure Guide for DirectAccess
| Stay Informed and Engaged
| | | | | Join the conversation on the Compliance Management Forum. Take part in discussions and collaborate on compliance management issues related to governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), interact with the Microsoft compliance team, and provide feedback on Beta review programs. | | | | | Want the latest Security and Compliance news straight from the experts? You'll hear it here first. Visit the Solution Accelerators Security Team Blog for the latest and greatest on new releases, Beta programs, and more! | | |
Featured Case Studies
Coming Soon: New Security Baselines for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8!
Updates to the Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series will be available this fall. The series has been enhanced to include the release of new security baselines for Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer® 8. To be notified of this and other releases from the Security Solution Accelerators team, subscribe to the news feed on their home page.
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