The Threats and Countermeasures Guide 1.0

The Threats and Countermeasures guide provides you with a reference to all security settings that provide countermeasures for specific threats against current versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The chapters of this guide are structured in a way that approximates how the major sections of settings are displayed in the user interface of the Group Policy Object Editor. Each chapter begins with a brief explanation of what is in the chapter, followed by a list of subsection headers, each of which corresponds to a setting or group of settings. These settings are listed in the Microsoft Excel workbook that is available in the downloadable version of this guide. Each subsection provides a brief explanation of what the countermeasure does, and includes the following information:
Vulnerability. How an attacker might exploit a feature's configuration.
Countermeasure. Explains how to implement the countermeasure.
Potential Impact. Explains the possible negative consequences of countermeasure implementation.