Mamo; I do some consulting work for Microsoft, one of the projects I've been helping with in recent years is the Security Compliance Manager: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc677002.aspx. SCM includes security baselines for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL 2008, and SQL 2008 R2. You can export the Windows baselines in several formats including group policy objects which you can than import into AD DS and apply to your servers. You can also apply them locally to stand alone servers using the Local Policy Tool that is included with SCM. The SQL baselines can be applied using PowerShell rather than group policy.
I've been researching SharePoint 2010 extensively for the past few weeks, I'm hoping to help Microsoft create a security guide and security baseline for SharePoint 2010 but that project won't kick off until next year, and only if funding is approved. At this point, nobody has a comprehensive guide for 2010. DISA has a pretty good checklist for SharePoint 2007, but it mixes database and OS configuration into the SharePoint checklist and obviously it doesn't include stuff that's new in 2010 such as claims based authentication. Neither NSA nor NIST have anything and I don't believe they are planning on SharePoint 2010 guidance right now. I'm sure that the Center for Internet Security is considering adding SharePoint 2010 to their list of checklists but I don't believe that they have started working on it yet. I suggest that you investigate SCM and if you like what you find that you join Microsoft Connect and sign up for Beta reviews of future SCM baselines, that would get you the earliest access to Microsoft's guidance for SharePoint 2010 should they decide to publish a guide for it. I believe this is the link for signing up to SCM betas: https://connect.microsoft.com/site715 My list of links for SharePoint 2010 security: 1. Newly published content (updated weekly) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262043.aspx 2. Governance: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800826.aspx 3. Security & Protection: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263215.aspx 4. Security and protection for SharePoint Foundation 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287860.aspx 5. Security & Authentication: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601872.aspx 6. PowerShell: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee662539(office.14).aspx 7. IT Pro Training: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/Pages/IT-Pro-Training-Guide. aspx 8. Main site on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx#tab=1 9. Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/ 10. Forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/sharepoint2010 11. Security training: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff678022.aspx 12. Labs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb512933.aspx Regards, Kurt Dillard, CISSP www.kurtdillard.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mamo Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 8:25 AM To: Anupam Kumar Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hardening Sharepoint 2010 on Win 2008 R2 Hello. We have quite complex policy that is not possible to summarize on a mailing list. Some important point for me specific for this project (it is a public web site): - The front end on internet need to a have a secure in depth configuration (if one level fail, I don't want to have all site compromised). I am looking both on configuration to be applied to the front end and to the backend. - I want to have a strong auditing level on who does what in changing the content of the site to be able to analise possible compromise/mistake with the change functionality. Thank you. Mamo On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Anupam Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Mamo, > > There is no definitive guide that can be given as it depends > completely on the security policy of your company. I work for Capital > One and almost everything is disabled due to security. However, I am > also aware from past experiences that some companies hardly follow any > hardening procedures. To answer your question better, please let us know what is your requirement. > What kind of security are you looking at? > > Knowing this is critical before something can be suggested. > > Regards > Anupam Kumar > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:02 AM, mamo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> My company is working on the new internet web site. >> It is going to be based on Sharepoint 2010 on Windows 2008 R2. >> >> They are very new platform (very very new for me :-( ). Do you know >> of any hardening guide for Sharepoint 2010? Can you give me pointers >> on Windows 2008 Hardening or security checklist? >> >> Thank you in advance. >> Mamo > >
