What are security templates?

Security templates are used to apply consistent security to multiple computers. Security templates work as a security policy, but they can be applied to any computer and provide an easy way to apply a customized set of default security settings. A security template is a file that contains security configurations. Security configurations can be made by using security templates as follows:

• Applying the security templates to a local computer.
• Importing the security templates to a group policy object (GPO).

Security templates can also be used to analyze the security of the network computers.