Tue, Apr 21, 2009 17:45 EDT

FDCC Enforcement Best Practices

Topic: Applications

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The FDCC mandate provides a single-standard managed IT environment for desktops and laptops running Microsoft Windows. According to the directive, all federal agencies “who have XP deployed and plan to upgrade to the Vista operating system” must adopt these standard security configurations.”

By establishing a common configuration, rather than hundreds of costly, locally created configurations, the FDCC helps the Federal Government improve security, reduce costs and application compatibility issues, while enabling agility in the deployment of new updates and patches.

While the need for compliance is clear, how to go about the implementation and maintenance is not. Over the coming posts, I will provide an overview of the FDCC mandate, the challenges associated with implementation and maintaining compliance, and recommended solutions.

Check back soon.

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Tue, Apr 21, 2009 20:39 EDT

Windows 7

Posted by: Anonymous
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Has NIST started to look at configuring FDCC on Windows 7 yet? It would be great if agencies could get a head start on testing it since most want to skip XP and the RC is May 5th.

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Thu, Jun 25, 2009 9:33 EDT

Windows 7

Posted by: JamieCerra
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From my research I have not found any work on applying FDCC to Windows 7. Since Windows 7 is mostly based on Vista SP2 core, I would assume the Vista FDCC settings would apply to Windows 7. But since Windows 7 is still in release candidate stage and Microsoft might make changes before release, I would expect you won’t see FDCC requirements until Windows 7 goes into general release. If you want to test in Windows 7 I would try the Vista FDCC settings for preliminary testing.

Vista was officially released in December 2006 and I did not see FDCC requirements on NIST until mid 2007. Based on that you should probably expect FDCC settings for Windows 7 in early 2010.

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