Re: Windows XP Services Best Practice

I'm glad you said that... I reviewed the NSA docs early on- most of it was
simply a list of the most restrictive/highest settings you could apply
without any real information on what did what, what broke what, etc.

That being said, "best practices" documents really shouldn't attempt to list
what services should and shouldn't be enabled-- [this is now a general reply
to the list, not one directed at you ;) ] "Best Practice," to me, is doing
your due diligence in research and discovery into what your network's needs
are, determining threat and risk, and then determining what must be enabled
to serve those needs within your threat model.

Find out what the services do, map out what you need, and disable everything
else. And test. These lists are no more than "typical" services; they are
not, in themselves, a "best practice."

t



On 6/5/06 9:29 AM, "Shaffer, Bruce" <security@xxxxxxxxx> spoketh to all:

Be wary of using this one as it is downloaded. It is certainly secure;
but your users will not be able to work. I sent this to an admin as a
joke when we were rolling out AD and he applied it as it was downloaded
from the site with the expected result that we were so secure no one
could do anything other than log on.

Just sharing an experience.
-B-

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandros Papadopoulos [mailto:apapadop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 10:25 AM
To: focus-ms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Windows XP Services Best Practice

On Monday 05 June 2006 05:58, Vic Brown wrote:
Anyone has a useful link with with information about what XP Pro SP2
services should be "disabled" on enterprise desktops according to
"best" practice? Basically I'm looking for something that has the
service name, functionality, security implication, and best practice
recommendation. Desktop users are only running an office suite.

Try http://www.nsa.gov/snac/ - NSA's security configuration guides.

-A

------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------






---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Relevant Pages

  • Re: How do you cope with Anxiety?
    ... The kind of "surgery tomorrow" anxiety would be to make lists of what I ... Practice and routine every day. ... All that tangent for a heart test ...
    (alt.support.arthritis)
  • Re: How do you cope with Anxiety?
    ... The kind of "surgery tomorrow" anxiety would be to make lists of what I ... Practice and routine every day. ... All that tangent for a heart test ...
    (alt.support.arthritis)
  • Re: Resiliency To New Data Requirements
    ... with the flawed theory of what was once known as 1NF. ... So I want to talk about theory and its relationship to practice. ... The industry had lists, then pooh-poohed ... Well, graph theory is constructed from set theory itself, a graph being ...
    (comp.databases.theory)
  • Re: [PHP] How to look for unused methods/functions and variables/constants.
    ... files and tell me which methods/functions variables/constants etc.. ... once you have these lists you simply iterate over each member of them. ... will generally know where dead code is. ... practice where said dead code is marked for removal in production support ...
    (php.general)
  • Re: Windows XP Services Best Practice
    ... On Monday 05 June 2006 05:58, Vic Brown wrote: ... services should be "disabled" on enterprise desktops according to ... service name, functionality, security implication, and best practice ... Try http://www.nsa.gov/snac/ - NSA's security configuration guides. ...
    (Focus-Microsoft)