CESG Releases Windows 10 Guidance for Official Clearance Level

[Jon]

I've had an alert setup for the release of this document because I had to follow a lot of CESG guidance on a previous contract and the guidance on Microsoft Accounts / Windows Store on Windows 8.1 and it was quite interesting. Today they have released their Windows 10 guidance and it's worth a read. Quite dry as it's a list of Group Policy settings mainly, but interesting:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/end-user-devices-security-guidance-windows-10

Of note:

• Cortana: Disabled
• OneDrive (consumer): Disabled
• Settings sync: Disabled
• Windows Store: Disabled (but with a note that in Windows 10 you can create a company store and whitelist applications)
• Microsoft Passport: Disabled
• Microsoft Account (consumer): Disabled

What is also interesting is that the millions of privacy options and reg hacks that have been going around are not in there, so might have been a storm in a tea cup after all.

There is also some guidance on using cloud services for those secure organisations that need to:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cloud-security-guidance

 

 

[kaesereibe]

Thanks for share.

Hope to see more Info about Win10 from you (or others) so I will "maybe" use Win10 in future.