So as we get started with working with security baselines,
we're going to take a look at the Microsoft Security baseline.
Now there are two links that I have shared in the More Information
section of this module, and those include the Microsoft Security
Baselines Blog, which is the page that you're looking at right now,
and this is a great page that you could keep handy to check what
baselines Microsoft is releasing.
As you scroll through the list,
you'll see that there are a number of different baselines related
not only to the operating systems, but also to various applications
such as Edge, Office, and so forth.
Now when you navigate to one of these baselines, you
will get a write‑up about the baseline.
For example, taking a look at this baseline, which relates to
Edge version 96, you can see the write‑up that talks about what
is additional in this baseline.
In order to download the actual baseline, we need to go
to the Security Compliance Toolkit.
Clicking on the Security Compliance Toolkit will take you to the
Download link on Microsoft's website. By clicking Download, you have
the ability now to download the different baselines along with some of
the tools, such as Policy Analyzer, LGPO, and more, that you can use
to work with the baseline.
So I'm going to go ahead and download Policy Analyzer, LGBO,
and as I scroll down towards the bottom,
I will download the Server 2022 Security Baseline.
Once this is downloaded, we're going to start working with
them and compare our baseline to the Security baseline that Microsoft has published.