NIST Publishes XP Security Guides
The National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Resource Center has released two special publications:
- Guidance for Securing Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Guidance for Securing Microsoft Windows XP Systems for IT Professionals
This is new ground for NIST to be covering, and it seems like it would be a good fit… On second thought, it seems like a waste of my taxpayer dollars. You see, the National Security Agency already publishes a whole bunch of Security Configuration Guides. They’ve got guides there for everything from operating systems to switches, databases to VOIP devices. Yes, Windows XP is covered.
I will have to read both to find out the similarities/differences, and see if both guides are actually needed. The only thing worse than not having a guide on how to secure a system is having two guides which differ in their recommendations.
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Isn’t it even more of a waste of taxpayers money that public agencies have to inspect products of private companies and writing up manuals on how to use them safely? I mean, of course, there are other industries where private products are inspected, this applies to most industrial products. But in most industries I know of, the harmful products aren’t released to the market and the manufacturer has to make sure they are corrected. Or at least, if the dangers involved in the product are acceptable, the vendor must supply manuals and instructions with safety warnings.
I know the NSA has stopped creating these guides for Windows. They did work with Microsoft to ensure that the Windows 2003 guide put out by Microsoft would meet the same requirements as the previous hardening guides.
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