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.
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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.
