Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer on cloud

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Overview

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a software tool released by Microsoft to determine security state by assessing missing security updates and less-secure security settings within Microsoft Windows, Windows components such as Internet Explorer, IIS web server, and products Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office macro settings. Security updates are determined by the current version of MBSA using the Windows Update Agent present on Windows computers since Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. The less-secure settings, often called Vulnerability Assessment (VA) checks, are assessed based on a hard-coded set of registry and file checks.

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.3 release adds support for Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows Server 2012. Windows 2000 will no longer be supported with this release.

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer on cloud For AWS

Features

Major Features of Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

1. Ability to open the main report for a computer from within the rollup view.
2. Ability to roll up all security update results without listing each bulletin explicitly on the command line.
3. Ability to include scanning errors, warnings, and restart required details in roll-up view.
4. Ability to summarize results for updates not yet approved on the WSUS server.
5. Ability to run up to 64 scans concurrently for increased throughput.

AWS

Installation Instructions For Windows

Installation Instructions For Windows

Note: How to find PublicDNS in AWS

Step 1) RDP Connection: To connect to the deployed instance, Please follow Instructions to Connect to Windows instance on AWS Cloud

1) Connect to the virtual machine using following RDP credentials:

Hostname: PublicDNS / IP of machine
Port : 3389

Username: To connect to the operating system, use RDP and the username is Administrator.
Password: Please Click here to know how to get password .

Step 2) Click the Windows “Start” button and select “All Programs” and then point to Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Step 3) Other Information:

1.Default installation path: will be in your root folder “C:\Program Files\Microsoft base security analyzer 2”
2.Default ports: