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The enclosed checklist is to be used to harden Windows XP workstations. 

The checklist was designed to protect against most known scripts, worms, and automated attacks. They were also designed to not break most applications (80/20 rule). We have taken out of these scripts and checklists items that tended to break a majority of the applications we tested on. These scripts were meant for production corporate environments. Some of the things we've taken out reflect the reality of implementing hardening in a production enterprise environment.

We fully support efforts such as the SANS Gold Standard, CIS, NIST, and MS Security Operations Guide. We have developed what we feel is a safe baseline of hardening that can be safely implemented in existing mixed-mode production environments. The hardening also takes the need for system administration into account.

Disclaimer: Make sure to test this checklist in a development environment before rolling out to production.

Please send all feedback on these checklists and scripts to Derek dot Milroy at Corp dash Sec dot net

Windows XP Hardening Checklist

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Last modified: 05/03/05