Microsoft Solution for Securing Windows 2000 Server
• February 27, 2003 •
Microsoft released an updated guide to TechNet, called "Microsoft Solution for Securing Windows 2000 Server". The guide is delivered in 11 chapters, plus a Test Guide, a Delivery Guide, and a Support Readiness Guide, each with applicable job aids, script files and test cases. Securing Windows 2000 Server provides customers with comprehensive information and analysis tools to assess security risks specific to Windows 2000 Servers.
The chapters of the guide cover a wide array of information, including:
- Introduction to Securing Windows 2000 Server
- Defining the Security Landscape
- Understanding the Security Risk Management Discipline
- Applying the Security Risk Management Discipline
- Securing the Domain Infrastructure
- Hardening the Base Windows 2000 Server
- Hardening Specific Server Roles
- Patch Management
- Auditing and Intrusion Detection
- Auditing and Intrusion Detection
- Conclusion
Using the principles of Microsoft® Security Foundation (MSF) and Microsoft Operations Foundation (MOF), Microsoft has created the Security Risk Management Discipline. This guides you through the steps to identify the threats and vulnerabilities that exist and determine which have the greatest potential impact. This comprehensive information and analysis techniques are provided to enable you to reuse them to assess specific security risks to your deployment of Windows 2000 Servers. Recommendations are detailed regarding specific server roles, the identified, mitigated risks and vulnerabilities with step by step instructions, to ensure a secure deployment. Finally, guidance on Patch Management, Auditing and Intrusion Detection, and Responding to Incidents is detailed.
This guide was previously released, but has been updated on the 17th February 2003 (The guide was updated again on August 6). You can download [3.2 MB] the guide as an executable from the Microsoft Web site. The guide itself requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free from the Adobe Web site.
The guide is also available on-line at the Microsoft TechNet Web site.