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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