Microsoft stops support for XP national Information Center Building Security Configuration Platform

Beijing Times News (reporter Guo Menglin) after Ching Ming Festival, Microsoft will officially stop the Windows XP system security Support Services. Continued use of the XP system will be more vulnerable to security risks and virus attacks. Yesterday, the reporter learned that the national Information Center has been built to cover 31 provinces and municipalities in the National Government terminal Security Configuration Application support platform, will rely on national economic information System in the national distribution of vertical institutions, in the absence of patches during the transition, the use of terminal core configuration to assist enterprises to protect against loopholes. According to the introduction, the computer terminal core configuration is to the computer operating system, the BIOS system and so on basic software influence security key parameter to carry on the parameter setting. Through configuration, can limit or prohibit the existence of security vulnerabilities of system functions, enable or enhance the security of the system to protect the function of the computer to enhance the ability to resist the risk of vulnerability. In the absence of patches, configuration can replace patches to a certain extent. As early as 2008, Microsoft signed an agreement with the National Information Center to assist the Government in establishing a core security configuration standard for the terminal. Li Yunyu, deputy director of the Network Security Department of the National Information Center, said that at present 31 provinces and municipalities have deployed a dedicated front-end server, responsible for the regional network terminals do security Configuration management, but upgrade the operating system is certainly a trend.