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Windows Integrity Mechanism: more than you ever wanted to know: A while back, the technology in Vista called mandatory integrity control got a new name: Windows integrity mechanism. Recently the folks responsible for developing the technology have posted a good amount of documentation on it. Read the Windows Vista Read More...
Posted 13 July 07 10:49 by Steve Riley | 0 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, protection
TechNet: Exploring the Windows Vista Firewall: New article up... Back in the days of the paleocomputing era, no one ever thought about installing firewalls on individual computers. Who needed to? Hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, TCP/IP was nowhere in sight, and LAN protocols didn’t route beyond Read More...
Posted 29 May 07 04:01 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, security theater, protection
BitLocker command line interface: Last week at TechEd Europe I showed the BitLocker command-line interface. At other TechEds I've mentioned it but didn't show it. The CLI provides full control over BitLocker, including enabling it on any NTFS volume on the system (the Control Panel UI Read More...
Posted 25 November 06 08:39 by Steve Riley | 15 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, protection, physical security, configuration, BitLocker, encryption
Ah, the joys of speaking about pre-release software!: Two weeks ago I delivered my Windows Vista System Integrity presentation at the TechEds in New Zealand (Auckland) and Australia (Sydney). It was largely the same as the presention at TechEds in America and India, but updated to reflect changes made in Read More...
Posted 06 September 06 02:26 by Steve Riley | 4 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, the trade press, protection, TechEd
Security in Windows Vista 64-bit: By now, many of you have heard us speak about or have read our writings on the improved security capabilities of Windows Vista. As I've said at a number of events now, the research I've done into these capabilities has convinced me that enterprises should Read More...
Posted 11 August 06 04:17 by Steve Riley | 1 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, false claims, protection
Mandatory integrity control in Windows Vista: One of my favorite new security features in Windows Vista is Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC). It’s a classical computer science concept from the 1970s that’s finally getting its first commercial implementation—and of this I’m quite proud. While discretionary Read More...
Posted 21 July 06 09:20 by Steve Riley | 27 Comments
Filed under Windows Vista, protection, TechEd