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Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit #EMET #security

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) helps raise the bar against attackers gaining access to computer systems. EMET anticipates the most common actions and techniques adversaries might use in compromising a computer, and helps protect by diverting, terminating, blocking, and invalidating those actions and techniques. EMET helps protect your computer systems even before new and undiscovered threats are formally addressed by security updates and antimalware software. EMET benefits enterprises and all computer users by helping to protect against security threats and breaches that can disrupt businesses and daily lives.

 

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

Download The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41963

 

EMET 5.0 Technical preview introduces a mitigation that can be used to reduce the exposure of components at risk to remote attackers. ASR is a new feature that can be used to block the usage of specific modules or plugins within an application. For example, EMET can be configured to prevent Microsoft Word/Excel from loading the Flash plugin, or, with the support of security zones, can be used to prevent Internet Explorer from loading the Java plugin on an Internet Zone website while continuing to allow Java on Intranet Zone websites. The mechanism simply prevents DLL loading in a selective way per-process and it essentially adds the benefit of the “killbit” mechanism to any application without need of complicated CLSID.
NOTE: The list of blocked modules for ASR and the zones with exceptions (where the modules are allowed to be loaded) should be manually defined by the user in the following registry key per-application:

HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftEMET_settings_{CLSID}asr_modules = “…”
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftEMET_settings_{CLSID}asr_zones = “…”
In EMET 5.0TP the feature is enabled only for the following combinations of processes and modules:

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The list of security zones is the standard one used by Internet Explorer: Local (0), Intranet (1), Trusted (2), Internet (3), Untrusted (4).

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EMET offers the “Early Warning Program” reporting feature. When an exploitation attempt is detected and blocked by EMET, a set of information related to the attack will be sent back to Microsoft through the standard Windows Error Reporting channel.

This information will help Microsoft to obtain information related to 0day exploits and will facilitate the remediation of the issue before it becomes a large scale threat. If the vulnerability is related to a software from a third party vendor, Microsoft will work with the affected vendor through the Microsoft Vulnerability Research program to remediate the issue.

The Early Warning Program reporting feature will also send back to Microsoft information related to suspicious SSL certificates related to Microsoft online services. Please refer to the “Privacy Statement.rtf” file, available also through the “Help” ribbon in EMET GUI, and at http://aka.ms/emet41ps, for more information on the type of data that will be sent to Microsoft.

Posted March 10, 2014 by Robert Smit in Security

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273

 

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system.
Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of security updates. For users who get attacked before the latest updates have been applied or who get attacked before an update is even available, the results can be devastating: malware, loss of PII, etc.
Security mitigation technologies are designed to make it more difficult for an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in a given piece of software. EMET allows users to manage these technologies on their system and provides several unique benefits

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EMET is designed to work with any software, whether it is developed by Microsoft or by other vendors. However, you should be aware that some software may be incompatible with EMET. Some applications rely on exactly the behavior that the mitigations block. It is important to use test scenarios on all target computers before you deploy EMET in a production environment.

After you install EMET, you must configure EMET to provide protection for a piece of software. This requires you to provide the name and location of the executable file that you want to protect. To do this, use one of the following methods:

  • Work with the Application Configuration feature of the graphical application
  • Use the command prompt utility

If you want to leverage the Certificate Trust feature, you have to provide the list of the websites that you want to protect and certificate pinning rules that apply to those websites. To do this, you have to work with the Certificate Trust Configuration feature of the graphical application.

Alternatively, you can use the new Configuration Wizard that allows you to automatically configure EMET with the recommended settings.

Get the toolkit here : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273

Posted June 18, 2013 by Robert Smit in Security

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SCM 3.0 with Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and IE 10 baselines Now in beta

SCM is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage your computers whether their located on desks, in traditional datacenter, or in a private cloud using Group Policy and Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager. To learn more about the current version of Security Compliance Manager, SCM 2.5, visit the TechNet Library More info about SCM get it here.

 

Secure your environment with new product baselines for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and Windows Internet Explorer 10. The beta release of Security Compliance Manager (SCM) 3.0 provides all the same great features for these new baselines, as well as an enhanced setting library for these new Microsoft products. This beta release includes fixes that resolve many previously reported issues in the setting library. The updated setting library also gives you the ability to further customize baselines. SCM 3.0 provides a single location for you to create, manage, analyze, and customize baselines to secure your environment faster and more efficiently.

As part of a select group of our key customers, we invite you to participate in the Beta Review Program of these new product baselines that include security enhancements for the following server roles and features:

Windows Server 2012 Security Baselines:

  • Domain Controller Security Compliance
  • Domain Security Compliance
  • Hyper-V Security Compliance
  • Member Server Security Compliance
  • Web Server Security Compliance

Windows 8 Security Baselines:

  • BitLocker Security
  • Computer Security Compliance
  • Domain Security Compliance

User Security Compliance:

  • Internet Explorer 10 Security Baselines:
  • Computer Security Compliance
  • User Security Compliance

What is not available in this beta release

The ability to export compliance data using formats that work with the DCM feature in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is temporarily blocked in the new baselines for Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, and Internet Explorer 10. This functionality will be enabled in the next beta release update.

This beta release includes five baselines for Windows Server 2012. The following additional server role baselines will be included in the next beta release update:

  • Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)
  • DNS Server
  • DHCP Server
  • File Services
  • Network Policy and Access Servers
  • Print Services
  • Remote Access
  • Remote Desktop Services

If you perform a clean installation of SCM 3.0 Beta on a computer running either Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 that does not also have Microsoft SQL Server software installed on it, you may receive the following compatibility warning message.

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A setting named Configure Windows SmartScreen in the Windows 8 Computer Security baseline may not be set in the registry correctly after its Group Policy Object (GPO) is applied. This is a known issue in this beta release that will be fixed in the final commercial release of SCM. The workaround to resolve this issue is to disable or not configure this setting in the baseline before exporting the GPO.

If you export the Windows 8 Computer Security Compliance baseline into a GPO, import the GPO into SCM 3.0 Beta, and then export it to a computer running a Windows operating system earlier than Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, an application exception message may appear. This is a known issue in this beta release that will be fixed in the final commercial release of SCM. The workaround to resolve this issue is to disable the setting named Configure Windows SmartScreen before clicking GPO Backup (folder) in the Export area of the Action pane in SCM 3.0 Beta.

Posted September 15, 2012 by Robert Smit in Security Compliance Manager

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