# User Guide

The System Administrator's reference manual to the SCAP Security Guide project

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The SCAP Security Guide (SSG) project delivers security guidance, baselines and associated validation mechanisms utilizing the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).

The project provides practical security hardening advice for Red Hat technologies and products, and also links it to compliance requirements in order to ease deployment activities, such as certification and accreditation. These include requirements in the U.S. Government (Federal, Defense, and Intelligence Community) as well as of the financial services and health care industries. The SSG bridges the gap between generalized policy requirements and specific implementation guidance, in SCAP formats to support automation whenever possible.