Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) News
July 16, 2007
The Department of Defense has implemented the Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) environment which allow all systems to have a uniform level of security.
ALL SDC all the time: https://afecmo.gunter.af.mil/default.aspx
Now the rest of the federal goverment is jumping on the Information Assurance Bandwagon with something called the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC).
SDC version 2 (Vista) is already in the works as well as Standard Server Configuration (SCC).
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Is this really going to work? I mean, small business units can rarely agree on a standard configuration let alone entire branches of the government? Maybe I’m assuming too much and this is just the equivalent to a standard hardening script for the Windows registry and not also including all the software on top?