You need to collect the information on existing vulnerabilities for each computer every night

You are the network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All computers on the network are members of the domain. All servers run Windows Server 2003 and all client computers run Windows XP Professional.

You are planning a security update infrastructure. You need to find out which computers are exposed to known vulnerabilities. You need to collect the information on existing vulnerabilities for each computer every night. You want this process to occur automatically.

What should you do?

You are the network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. All computers on the network are members of the domain. All servers run Windows Server 2003 and all client computers run Windows XP Professional.

You are planning a security update infrastructure. You need to find out which computers are exposed to known vulnerabilities. You need to collect the information on existing vulnerabilities for each computer every night. You want this process to occur automatically.

What should you do?

A.
Install Software Update Services (SUS) on one of the servers. Configure the SUS server to update every night.

B.
Schedule the secedit command to run every night.

C.
Schedule the mbsacli.exe command to run every night.

D.
Install Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) on one of the servers. Configure Automatic Updates on all other computers to use that server.

Explanation:
We can schedule the mbsacli.exe command to periodically scan for security vulnerabilities.

Reference:

Martin Grasdal, Laura E. Hunter, Michael Cross, Laura Hunter, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, and Dr. Thomas W. Shinder, Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructur* Exam 70-293 Study Guide & DVD Training System, Syngress Publishing, Inc., Rockland, MA, Chapter 11, p. 830



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