How we did it

We installed PoliVec Builder, Scanner and Enforcer on an Intel Pentium III system with 128M bytes of RAM running Windows 2000, SP3. We created an initial security policy based on the default template. We then imported the policy into Scanner and audited five Win 2000 and XP systems on the test network. We then imported the policy into Enforcer and monitored five Win 2000 and XP systems, changing system configurations to trigger defined alerts. We also repeated these tests using a custom security policy.

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We installed PoliVec Builder, Scanner and Enforcer on an Intel Pentium III system with 128M bytes of RAM running Windows 2000, SP3. We created an initial security policy based on the default template. We then imported the policy into Scanner and audited five Win 2000 and XP systems on the test network. We then imported the policy into Enforcer and monitored five Win 2000 and XP systems, changing system configurations to trigger defined alerts. We also repeated these tests using a custom security policy.

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