Windows 10: Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit Security Baseline Challenge Question

r0x0t · Apr 28, 2020

I have applied Microsoft security baseline to Windows 10 IoT.

Can anyone please provide a workaround or a solution to revert back the system to previous/original state?

Any way which can basically revert the system + group policy + registry settings back to the way it was without security baselines

PS: Microsoft compliance toolkit itself does not have this option which is why I have mention even a workaround would help if you know any.

Note: Just reversing GPO will not help. We will need to revert GPO + registry + potential changes introduced by baseline.

:)

Brink · Apr 28, 2020

Security baseline news for Microsoft Edge version 81

We have reviewed the new settings in version 81 of Microsoft Edge and determined that no new security settings are required. The settings recommended in the version 80 baseline will continue to be the security baseline for version 81! This means we will not be releasing our typical package.

Version 81 of Microsoft Edge adds 15 new computer- and user-based settings. There are now 285 enforceable Computer Configuration policy settings and 269 User Configuration policy settings. Using our streamlined approach, our baseline remains at 12 Group Policy settings. We have attached a spreadsheet with the new settings to make it easier for you to find them.

The version 80 package continues to be available as part of the Security Compliance Toolkit. Like all our baseline packages, this package includes:

Importable GPOs

A script to apply the GPOs to local policy

A script to import the GPOs into Active Directory Group Policy

A spreadsheet documenting all recommended settings in spreadsheet form (minus the version 81 setting that are attached to this blog)

Policy Analyzer rules

GP Reports

We always welcome feedback through the Baselines Discussion site.
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...1/ba-p/1303621

Latest Microsoft Edge released for Windows

Justine Lwc · Apr 28, 2020

How to do Baseline Review via Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit?

Hi there,

I am new to all these so pardon me for my unsophisticated question. I don't know if this is the right place to ask questions like this.

So I have been reading about this tool kit and what it can do, and the step by step on how to run a export policy, import GPO and do a setting. But none of them tell me what I'm supposed to do, which GPO to get etc.

[The situation]

Let's say I have a domain controller here, running on Win Server 2012 R2 and 2 member servers also running on Win Server 2012 R2. In my domain I have about 10 client desktops running on Windows 10 Pro 1909.

I am required to perform regular baseline review for all the above mentioned devices. Which policies or GPO should I compare to the baseline?

[My confusion]

I am aware each computer has a local policy or LGPO but being a member of a domain, the domain group policy would take precedence. But the domain group policy and its associated GPO are only accessible on the domain controller. So if I extract the GPO from
this domain controller, which baseline should I compare it to? Should I compare it to Win Server 2012 R2 baseline? Win 10 1909 baseline? Both?

What confuses me is, domain group policy applies to all computers in the domain even if they have different OS version so which is the correct baseline to use here?

Also, should I even bother to extract the LGPO from each computer to compare against baseline knowing that the domain group policy overrides it anyway?

Brink · Apr 28, 2020

Security baseline (DRAFT) release for Chromium-based Microsoft Edge 79

We are pleased to announce the draft security baseline for the initial stable release of the new Microsoft Edge! Please review the security baseline (DRAFT) for Microsoft Edge version 79, and send us your feedback through the Baselines Discussion site.

What are security baselines?

Every organization faces security threats. However, the types of security threats that are of most concern to one organization can be completely different from another organization. For example, an e-commerce company may focus on protecting its Internet-facing web apps, while a hospital may focus on protecting confidential patient information. The one thing that all organizations have in common is a need to keep their apps and devices secure.

A security baseline is a group of Microsoft-recommended configuration settings that explains their security impact. These settings are based on feedback from Microsoft security engineering teams, product groups, partners, and customers.

Why are security baselines needed?

Security baselines are an essential benefit to your organization because they bring together expert knowledge from Microsoft, partners, and customers.

For example, there are 200+ Microsoft Edge Group Policy settings for Windows. Of these settings, only some are security-related. Although Microsoft provides extensive guidance on these policies, exploring each one can take a long time. You would have to determine the security impact of each setting on your own. Then, you would still need to determine the appropriate value for each setting.

In modern organizations, the security threat landscape is constantly evolving, and IT administrators and policy-makers must keep up with security threats and make required changes to Microsoft Edge security settings to help mitigate these threats. To enable faster deployments and make managing Microsoft Edge easier, Microsoft provides customers with security baselines that are available in consumable formats, such as Group Policy Objects backups.

Security baseline principles

As with our current Windows and Office security baselines, our recommendations for Microsoft Edge configuration follow a streamlined and efficient approach to baseline definition when compared with the baselines we published before Windows 10. The foundation of that approach is essentially this:

The baselines are designed for well-managed, security-conscious organizations in which standard end users do not have administrative rights.

A baseline enforces a setting only if it mitigates a contemporary security threat and does not cause operational issues that are worse than the risks they mitigate.

A baseline enforces a default only if it is otherwise likely to be set to an insecure state by an authorized user:

If a non-administrator can set an insecure state, enforce the default.

If setting an insecure state requires administrative rights, enforce the default only if it is likely that a misinformed administrator will otherwise choose poorly.

(For further explanation, see the “Why aren’t we enforcing more defaults?” section in this blog post.)

How can you use security baselines?

You can use security baselines to:

Ensure that user and device configuration settings are compliant with the baseline.

Set configuration settings. For example, you can use Group Policy, System Center Configuration Manager, or Microsoft Intune to configure a device with the setting values specified in the baseline.

Download the security baselines

For version 78, see Security baseline (DRAFT) for Chromium-based Microsoft Edge, version 78.

For version 79, see Security baseline (DRAFT) for Chromium-based Microsoft Edge, version 79.

Future draft security baselines versions will be posted to the Microsoft Security Baselines Blog, and final security baselines will be available in the Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT).

Learn about Microsoft Edge in the enterprise

Check out our Microsoft Edge enterprise documentation to learn more about deploying and managing the next version of Microsoft Edge.

– Forbes Higman, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge enterprise security
– Brian Altman, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge manageability
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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/...draft-edge-79/

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