Reducing the attack surface of Windows

Today Michael posted an excellent entry with tonnes of good links on ways to reduce the attack surface of a Windows machine. As a quick summary, here is a list of readings on the subject:

• A great MSDN article entitled Fending Off Future Attacks by Reducing Attack Surface
  
• A great paper by Ernst & Young about using attack surface area and relative attack surface quotient to identify attackability
  
• A paper written by Michael, Jon Pincus and Jeannette Wing on Measuring Relative Attack Surfaces
  

Happy reading.