Windows - Hardening

The Windows operating system are hardened during provisioning since 2022 Version.

Recommandations from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit and CIS Benchmark documents are applied in order to enforce, harden and secure the Windows operating systems. Several hundred parameters are checked and configured to ensure Windows Health The following topics are covered :

Account Policies

• Define different account option for user authentication on microsoft network

User Rights Assignment

• Specify what a user or system account is authorized to do on a Windows Server

Administrative templates

Define specifics and secures configurations on the following windows component

• Control Panel

• Network

• Printers

• Start Menu and Taskbar

• System

System Services

• Configure Windows Services, disabling unnecessary and unsecure services

Security Options

• Define a set of operating system configurations that govern how users can interact with devices and corporate resources

Windows Firewall

Advanced Audit Policy Configuration

• Allows to specify which security events are audited on Windows and how logs are saved

PowerShell

• PowerShell's execution policy is a safety feature that controls the conditions under which PowerShell loads configuration files and runs scripts