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Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises

ISBN: 0470108320
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 101

Authors: Mark Minasi, Byron Hynes

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• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Administering Windows Vista Security-The Big Surprises
• Introduction-How to Keep Vista Security from Giving You a Stroke
• Vista Turns Out to Be More Than Just a Pretty Face. Who Knew?
• Meet the Coauthors
• What s Inside This Book
• Stay Up to Date with My Free Newsletter
• Contacting Us
• Chapter 1: Administering Vista Security-The Little Surprises
• Power Users Are Essentially Gone
• BOOT.INI Is Gone, BCD Is Here
• IPv6 and Network Properties
• Remote Desktop Gets a Bit More Secure
• Changes in Security Options
• Encryption News
• New Event Viewer
• Chapter 2: Understanding User Account Control (UAC)-
• Why UAC Is Good, after All
• An Overview of UAC
• Digging Deeper into UAC
• Reconfiguring User Account Control
• Will UAC Succeed?
• Summary
• Chapter 3: Help for Those Lame Apps-File and Registry Virtualization
• Seeing File Virtualization in Action
• File and Registry Virtualization Considerations
• Which Areas Are Protected and Where They Are Virtualized
• What Does
• Seeing Virtualization in Standard Versus Administrative Users
• Tracking Virtualization
• A Possible Virtualization Problem
• Controlling Virtualization
• The Future of Virtualization
• Summary
• Chapter 4: Understanding Windows Integrity Control
• Mandatory Controls Versus Discretionary Controls
• WIC Components
• Seeing Processes in Action
• Using WIC ACEs to Restrict Access
• Things WIC ACEs Can t Do
• A Note on Modifying System Files
• Dialing Up Custom Labels
• Summary
• Chapter 5: BitLocker-Solving the Laptop Security Problem
• The Laptop Security Problem Today
• BitLocker Drive Encryption-the Overview
• Full Disk Encryption
• Authentication or Access Control
• Enabling BitLocker for the First Time
• Using BitLocker without a TPM
• Recovery
• BitLocker and Active Directory
• Group Policy Options
• Managing the TPM and BitLocker in the Enterprise
• Servicing a BitLocker-Protected Computer
• Secure Decommissioning
• Planning for BitLocker Deployment
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Post-Boot Protection-Code Integrity, New Code Signing Rules, and PatchGuard
• Giving 64-bit More Armor
• Code Integrity
• New Code Signing Rules
• Summary
• Chapter 7: How Vista Secures Services
• Service Control Manager
• How Vista Toughens Services: Overview
• Session Separation
• Reducing Service Privileges
• Service Isolation
• Restricting a Service s Network Ports
• Summary
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I-J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X-Z
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Page #99 (Index)
• Page #100 (List of Figures)