24.0 Understanding the Categories

Policy templates that assess whether your security configurations and policies conform to the policies recommended by rules and legislation, such as HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Templates that use information based on recent updates, such as critical patches to assess your security configuration. These templates also provide vulnerability announcements.

Policy templates that assess whether your security configurations and policies conform to best practices for specific areas of concern, such as account passwords and security patches.

Available only when you have the SCAP Module for Secure Configuration Manager installed

Policy templates that assess whether your security configuration and policies conform to the policies specified in the imported SCAP content, such as FDCC.

Policy templates created or imported by Secure Configuration Manager users.