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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook
Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook: Over 40 practical recipes that will help you plan, build, implement, and enhance IT compliance policies using Microsoft Security Compliance Manager and Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

Chapter 2. Implementing the First Steps of Basic Compliance

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline
  • Installing Security Compliance Manager
  • Creating a compliance baseline using GPO to ensure system security
  • Implementing the GPO Baseline into Active Directory

Introduction

Our compliance process starts with a simple tool called Microsoft Security Compliance Manager. This free tool allows you to create and centrally manage compliance baselines based on Group Policy Objects (GPOs). The tool is used to compare your GPOs against established standards and to export them for use within other configuration management tools. The focus of Security Compliance Manager is on technical compliance. It includes industry best-practice baselines and supports auditing existing baselines. Security Compliance Manager allows you to kick-start your compliance program for existing technologies such as Active Directory Domain Services.

You could buy one of the compliance tools that offer more functionality and cover a broader spectrum of compliance; however, before spending the money, it is worth reviewing this free tool that may cover your requirements. Start with a technology that is already available within your environment and use or enhance this to create your...

Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline

This recipe provides information on activities that should be performed before creating a compliance baseline and installing Security Compliance Manager.

Getting ready

In order to create a meaningful and successful basic compliance program, it is essential that a clear understanding of your goals exists. As mentioned in Chapter 1, Starting the Compliance Process for Small Businesses, you have to define what you want to achieve with your compliance program. The creation of the compliance baseline using Security Compliance Manager will affect part of your company or all of your company's users and/or systems, as it is based on the domain policy. For example, if you introduce a stricter password policy, all the appropriate stakeholders must be involved.

How to do it...

To create a compliance baseline based on the Active Directory domain policy, the following areas have to be researched and/or prepared:

  • Technical aspects:
    • Understand the Active...

Installing Security Compliance Manager

This recipe shows the steps required for a successful installation of Security Compliance Manager.

Getting ready

You should prepare a physical or virtual system to install Security Compliance Manager on. In addition, you should complete the previous recipe Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline before starting the installation.

How to do it...

The prerequisites for installing Security Compliance Manager are as follows:

  • Prepare an account that has administrative privileges on the system where Security Compliance Manager will be installed
  • Ensure you have access to Group Policy Management Console and read-access to AD
  • Ensure you have a compatible operating system; at the time of writing, a client system with Windows 7, Windows 8 and later, or a server system with Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012, is sufficient
  • Install the prerequisites as follows:
    • Windows Installer 4.5 (already included in Windows 8 and Windows 2012).
    • Microsoft .NET Framework 4; ensure...

Creating a compliance baseline using GPO to ensure system security

This recipe provides an introduction to basic compliance, focusing on small businesses.

Getting ready

You should read the previous two recipes Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline in addition to Installing Security Compliance Manager.

How to do it...

Research the subject by doing one or more of the following things:

  • Research the settings available in group policies, including the product-specific ones you can download. Understand the settings and the risk they mitigate. Information for most group policies is available on the Internet, or you can even use Security Compliance Manager itself as it shows policy information. Additionally, there are tools that help you create your own policies for application and system settings.
  • Based on your organizational requirements, corporate policies, and compliance standards, along with any regulatory requirements, define your compliance baselines and determine which OUs the baselines...

Implementing the GPO baseline in Active Directory

This recipe provides information on how to implement the created baselines from the previous chapter into your company Active Directory.

Getting ready

The previous recipes should be finished before proceeding with this one.

How to do it...

The overall process of starting with the second recipe Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline, moving to the third recipe Creating a compliance baseline to ensure system security, and finishing with this recipe is summarized in the following diagram:

How to do it...

To use the created GPO Baseline and implement it into your company's AD, open the GPMC console and navigate to the GPO where you want to import the GPO baseline settings. If you have not already created a GPO, you will need to do so. Be aware that the password policy is different from other policies, because it has to be applied to the default domain policy unless the AD DS fine-grained password policy is used. Refer to the There's more&...

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Description

Whether you are an IT manager, an administrator, or security professional who wants to learn how Microsoft Security Compliance Manager and Microsoft System Center can help fulfil compliance and security requirements, this is the book for you. Prior knowledge of Microsoft System Center is required.

What you will learn

  • Design and implement your compliance program.
  • Explore Microsoft Security Compliance Manager as a base entry solution for your compliance program. Export configuration items ready for use in System Center Configuration Manager.
  • Use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to create, deploy, and manage the life cycle of compliance baselines.
  • Use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to monitor for compliance breaches.
  • Design and run reports to understand your compliance status and security audit state.
  • Deploy Microsoft System Center Service Manager to centralize and efficiently manage your compliance program.

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
1. Starting the Compliance Process for Small Businesses Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Implementing the First Steps of Basic Compliance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Enhancing the Basic Compliance Program Using Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Monitoring the Basic Compliance Program Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Starting an Enterprise Compliance Program Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Planning a Compliance Program in Microsoft System Center 2012 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Configuring a Compliance Program in Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Automating Compliance Processes with Microsoft System Center 2012 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Reporting on Compliance with System Center 2012 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. Useful Websites and Community Resources Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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A lot of guys know something or even more from Microsoft System Center Suite 2012, but a lot of them don't know the real worth of it escpecially regarding compliance. As this becomes more and more important, this guide is the one and only book that deals with how to be compliant using System Center 2012 within your environment. If you read through the complete book and Setup the guidelines in your environment, you will reach a compliance level you possibly would have never thought about. It dives into all possibilities and features that you should have configured in you networking environment. The authors know their jobs well, this is a clear statement throughout the whole book. It's a please to read it.
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There is a huge big thing you can accomplishe with System Center. System Center is not a product its a solution with differents product.There are a lot of People out there, which are experts in a few of theese products, but to understand the whole solution you Need a little bit more.So buy and read this book to understand the whole System Center Solution a lot better.
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