Federal Desktop Core Configuration

[Eldmannen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Desktop_Core_Configuration

http://nvd.nist.gov/fdcc/download_fdcc.cfm

It is the security configuration to be used on federal desktop systems running Windows XP and Windows Vista.

I haven't tried it, but it seems interesting.

[James_A]

It's no longer called FDCC -- that's the old name. Wikipedia's article is presumably flagged as outdated because of the name change, caused by the move to Windows 7.

Now it's called USGCB: United States Government Configuration Baseline and it covers Windows 7 and Red Hat (RHEL 5).

Both of them look interesting if you want to lock down computers.

[James_A]

Forgot to post the link....

USGCB is at http://usgcb.nist.gov/

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[greenknight]

Cool that there's a version for Red Hat, too - the feds used to act like no OS existed outside of Windows.

[Eldmannen]

Cool that there's a version for Red Hat, too - the feds used to act like no OS existed outside of Windows.

Actually NSA developed Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)