Saturday, September 25, 2010

Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA)

Microsoft published a new tool, Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA). This tool scans a server against a set of best practices recommended for production servers. The list of best practices is derived from the Microsoft Information Security & Risk Management Deployment Review Standards used internally at Microsoft to harden production and pre-production environments for line of business applications.

It uses an agent-less scan that requires the user to have admin privileges on the target server, as well as any SQL Server instances running on that machine.

• Scan a machine for more than 140 rules
• Generate HTML based reports
• Compare two scans to view the differences
• Export results to Excel
• Export results to Team Foundation Server

You can download the tool from Microsoft here .

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