Securing Your Desktop

In todays computing environment, the security of all computing resources, from network infrastructure devices to users desktop computers, is essential. There are many threats to users computers, ranging from remotely launched network attack to malware and viruses that are spread through e-mails, websites, and files. Increasing the security of individual desktop protects them from these threats and reduces the chances to be compromised. The main objective of this article is to formulate a security configuration policy for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems called as Baselines. These baselines can be adapted to any organization running any versions of Windows Operating Systems. Apart from these baselines, Anti-Virus and Windows Updates are mandatory to ensure System Security.