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Security templates

Security templates are basically a “starting point” for defining system settings in Windows. These templates contain hundreds of possible settings that can control a single computer or a whole network of computers and can be customized extensively. Some of the areas that security templates control include user rights, password policies, system policies, and user and system permissions. The base security templates provided by Microsoft are predefined settings to accomplish a specific task. For example, compatws in Windows is used to reduce the security level to allow older applications to run and hisecdc is used to apply a high security level to a domain controller. Similarly, hisecws is used to apply stringent security controls ...