| Hardened XP config available
If you have the time and money to implement... |
tangor
msg:3909117 | 3:35 am on May 8, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| Microsoft has teamed with the US government to refine a locked-down, more secure configuration of Windows XP. Originally developed by the US Air Force in cooperation with Microsoft, the special XP set-up uses hardened Group Policy Objects (a technology in Microsoft's Active Directory) and images, which the Air Force used as the standard OS image for its desktop Windows machines. |
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As reported at The Register. [theregister.co.uk...]
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bill
msg:3909133 | 4:22 am on May 8, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Apparently they use Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) [nvd.nist.gov]. They have versions for XP and Vista available. According to Microsoft's rebuttal in the blog linked to in the article there isn't a special version of Windows for the Air Force. MS just helped them setting their security policy.
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