High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer is a software tool released by Microsoft to determine security state by assessing missing security updates and less-secure security settings within Microsoft Windows, Windows components such as Internet Explorer, IIS web server, and products Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office macro settings. Security updates are determined by the current version of MBSA using the Windows Update Agent present on Windows computes since Windows 2000 Service Pack 3. The less-secure settings, often called Vulnerability Assessment checks, are assessed based on a hard-coded set of registry and file checks.
