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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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