Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)
Microsoft has provided a free tool for several versions of Windows that analyzes computers to identify insecure configurations. The MBSA is an easy-to-use legacy tool. However, MBSA isn’t the latest analysis tool available, and with each new version of Windows, it looks for fewer and fewer vulnerabilities. It evaluates part of the current security state of computers in accordance with Microsoft security recommendations. It not only identifies problems but also ranks them by severity and provides recommendations to fix each one. Although MBSA isn’t as comprehensive as it used to be, it does a good job of finding much of the “low hanging fruit.”
The latest version of MBSA, version 2.3, officially supports ...
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