MS Attack Surface Analyzer tool
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MS Attack Surface Analyzer tool
Looks like a promising tool. For the time being it's in beta.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Tool-to-track-security-sensitive-changes-to-Windows-1172093.html
This tool allows administrators and end users to find out whether installing a certain program has negatively impacted system security, although it does NOT examine the installed software for concrete vulnerabilities. So you scan your system with this tool, install a new program and then run the tool again, and you'll get a report. The Heise testers, for example got this:
You can download the free MS tool from here: Attack Surface Analyzer BETA
Paul
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Tool-to-track-security-sensitive-changes-to-Windows-1172093.html
This tool allows administrators and end users to find out whether installing a certain program has negatively impacted system security, although it does NOT examine the installed software for concrete vulnerabilities. So you scan your system with this tool, install a new program and then run the tool again, and you'll get a report. The Heise testers, for example got this:
P.S.: If you work with SRP or AppLocker, you would also want to know whether your newly installed printer has opened write access for limited users to certain critical folders......Messenger ICQ under Windows 7, Attack Surface Analyzer pointed out that the access privileges for numerous installation files were too comprehensive, apparently allowing non-administrators to manipulate these files; this could potentially enable an attacker with restricted access privileges to pass on malicious code to another user of the same PC (with a different account).
You can download the free MS tool from here: Attack Surface Analyzer BETA
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