Microsoft's Attack Surface Analyzer Tool

Attack Surface Analyzer tool is announced by the microsoft regarding the issues of the security changes.It detects all the changes have been done in the security by analyzing the registry entries,ActiveX controls & the added files in the windows system.

The aim of the microsoft developer is very clean that any 3rd party software is installed on the system then this tool is checking that weather the installed tool increased the attack surface on the windows platform or not.To generate a report, the tool needs to scan a system before and after the program in question is installed.

Overview

Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Security Engineering group, building on the work of our Security Science team. It is the same tool used by Microsoft's internal product groups to catalogue changes made to operating system attack surface by the installation of new software.

Attack Surface Analyzer takes a snapshot of your system state before and after the installation of product(s) and displays the changes to a number of key elements of the Windows attack surface.

This allows :

-Developers to view changes in the attack surface resulting from the introduction of their code on to the Windows platform
-IT Professionals to assess the aggregate Attack Surface change by the installation of an organization's line of business applications
-IT Security Auditors evaluate the risk of a particular piece of software installed on the Windows platform during threat risk reviews
- IT Security Incident Responders to gain a better understanding of the state of a systems security during investigations (if a baseline scan was taken of the system during the deployment phase)

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